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Suite-Pee · System of a Down

EXERCISE 4 OF 38
Groove T -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCLOS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suite-Pee on drums

86 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-53, ride through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-27 and 29-32, and 3 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Suite-Pee -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 44, 61 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-37 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-51 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-55 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-62 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suite-Pee?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Suite-Pee hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Suite-Pee?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 40, 44, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED