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pyata · ya

EXERCISE 10 OF 84
Join Part A to Part C (bars 3-5)
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0 / 84 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
PART A
PART P
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSAXPAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play pyata on drums

357 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 7:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
357
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-28, toms through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-64, silence through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-101 and ride through bars 102-115, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 49-63 and 76, and 25 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
pyata -- 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 29, 30, 31, 32, 48, 132 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- L, U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-216 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 110-143 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is pyata?

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 pyata hard to play on drums?

62 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

357 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 pyata?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 48, 132 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 357 BARS ANALYSED