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Run, Pig, Run · Queens Of The Stone Age

EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove E -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDFES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run, Pig, Run on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-49, ride through bars 50-56, silence through bars 57-58, toms through bars 59-105 and ride through bars 106-134, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 41-48 and 59-79, and 2 more places -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |f-----f-----f---|
T2 |--x-x---x-x-----|
FT |--x-x---x-x-----|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--|
Run, Pig, Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 40, 80 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 29-44 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-110 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Run, Pig, Run?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Run, Pig, Run hard to play on drums?

60 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Run, Pig, Run?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 40, 80 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED