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Southbound Pachyderm · Primus

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove AP -- Chorus
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0 / 49 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT
PART A
PART F
PART AB
PART W
PART AR
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAPFWABA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Southbound Pachyderm on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-58, hi-hat through bars 59-128, ride through bars 129-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-152, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    176
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------------x-----------------------------x-----|
Southbound Pachyderm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- AP, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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