Suck · Pigface

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
SUCK · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suck?

104 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 Suck hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Suck?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

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