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The Perfect Pillow - Chon · yuyayu24

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove N -- Part N
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0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART N, PART P
PART B
PART E
PART N
PART P
PART Q
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesASEPAMB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Perfect Pillow - Chon on drums

126 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-64, snare through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-74 and snare through bars 75-83, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35 and 37 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
BD |x---x-x---x-|
The Perfect Pillow - Chon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Perfect Pillow - Chon?

174 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 The Perfect Pillow - Chon hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 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 Perfect Pillow - Chon?

14 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED