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Pustules · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 26 OF 114
Join Part A to Part F (bars 15-17)
133 / 285 BARS COVERED
0 / 114 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AU
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
11 groovesJZAWAU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pustules on drums

285 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
75/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-69, snare through bars 70-80 and ride through bars 81-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 13-15, and 16 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pustules -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 16, 20, 21 and 87 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 15-23 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pustules?

270 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 Pustules hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 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 Pustules?

29 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 16, 20, 21 and 87 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED