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Willie The Pimp · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
PART AR
PART BM
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCAMARDBM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Willie The Pimp on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 7:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15 and 24, and 5 more places -- 9.4% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-xx-x--|
Willie The Pimp -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 30, 31 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Willie The Pimp?

84 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 Willie The Pimp hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Willie The Pimp?

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 30, 31 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED