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Suck · Pigface
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suck on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-86, snare through bars 87-91 and toms through bars 92-94.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|----------x---x-|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
Suck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-59 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 64-87 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED