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Puppets (The First Snow) · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART Z
PART O
CHORUS 2
12 groovesPEOCAK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Puppets (The First Snow) on drums

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-66 and 124-139 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-------x---|
Puppets (The First Snow) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 25 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- O, P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Puppets (The First Snow)?

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

Is Puppets (The First Snow) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Puppets (The First Snow)?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 25 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED