The Pendulum · Igor Paluszek

394 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 187 BPM, 7:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
394
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-27, 30-37 and 40-47, and 8 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
THE PENDULUM · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 102 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 48 and 96 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

394 bars across 32 sections: 212 keep time, 102 are fills, 40 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 152-188.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AN
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLQSANAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Pendulum?

187 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Pendulum hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

394 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 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 The Pendulum?

19 fills to learn, played 102 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 48 and 96 more.

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