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Regular People · Pantera

EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove N
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PART J
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART O
13 groovesLWQIA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Regular People on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
88/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, toms through bars 29-32 and ride through bars 33-41, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 67-69, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------------x--------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Regular People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 57, 90, 147 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Regular People?

128 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 Regular People hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 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 Regular People?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 57, 90, 147 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED