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The Puppeteer · Ben Schröder

The Puppeteer · Ben Schröder
EXERCISE 13 OF 53
Groove F
58 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOKSGD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Puppeteer on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30 and toms through bars 31-39, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 62-64, and 3 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x---f---x-|
SD |x-----------x--x|
T2 |------x---------|
FT |----x-----------|
BD |x---------x---xx|
The Puppeteer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 35, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- O, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 17-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-70 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Puppeteer?

120 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 The Puppeteer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Puppeteer?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 35, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED