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Pulse · Erra

EXERCISE 1 OF 99
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART AR
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCHARBQB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pulse on drums

195 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-51, hi-hat through bars 52-54, snare through bars 55-83, toms through bars 84-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-131, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 25 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pulse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 69 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-51 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pulse?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pulse hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pulse?

31 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED