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Pull The Plug (A Standard) · Death

EXERCISE 21 OF 61
Join Part I to Part L (bars 32-34)
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CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART T
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBLVTI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pull The Plug (A Standard) on drums

193 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-50 and silence through bars 51-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-104, 106-111 and 114-128 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Pull The Plug (A Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-162 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pull The Plug (A Standard)?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pull The Plug (A Standard) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pull The Plug (A Standard)?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED