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Puppet Master · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 13 OF 55
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AF
OUTRO
9 groovesGAFAPK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Puppet Master on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 4 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------------------------------------------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------------------|
Puppet Master -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 40, 48 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Puppet Master?

140 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 Puppet Master hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Puppet Master?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 40, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED