Southbound Pachyderm · Primus

206 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 129, 131 and 133, and 10 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
SOUTHBOUND PACHYDERM · BAR 176
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 57, 58, 83 and 5 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 11 sections: 173 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-56.

PART A
PART F
PART AB
PART W
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAPFWABA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Southbound Pachyderm?

148 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 Southbound Pachyderm hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Southbound Pachyderm?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 57, 58, 83 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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