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Pull The Plug · Death

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove V -- Chorus
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0 / 63 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART I
PART G
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AE
PART B
OUTRO 2
12 groovesVBIS14G+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pull The Plug on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-41 and silence through bars 42-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-72 and 74-89 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Pull The Plug -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 19 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-32 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-42 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-62 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pull The Plug?

144 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 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:46 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, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED