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Pungent Stench · Pungent Stench

Pungent Stench · Pungent Stench
EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove F -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pungent Stench on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3 and snare through bars 4-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pungent Stench -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 21, 25, 31, 35, 41 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pungent Stench?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pungent Stench hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pungent Stench?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 21, 25, 31, 35, 41 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED