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Pyrrhic · Ne Obliviscaris

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove L -- Part L
0 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
PART W
PART L
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesDLQWN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pyrrhic on drums

178 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 5:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
95/100

ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23 and snare through bars 24-33, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 78-85 and 151-156 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Pyrrhic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-45 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pyrrhic?

112 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pyrrhic hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 Pyrrhic?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED