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They Perched On Their Stilts... · saosin

EXERCISE 14 OF 70
17-bar fill at bar 13
44 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBAQANC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play They Perched On Their Stilts... on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 30, and 13 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
They Perched On Their Stilts... -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is They Perched On Their Stilts...?

145 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 They Perched On Their Stilts... hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 They Perched On Their Stilts...?

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED