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Pyro · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 3 OF 16
Groove G -- Outro
62 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pyro on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-79, hi-hat through bars 80-88, snare through bars 89-111 and hi-hat through bars 112-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 7 more places -- 55.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T2 |--x-----------x-----x---|
FT |----x-------x---x-----x-|
BD |x---------x-------------|
Pyro -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pyro?

116 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 Pyro hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED