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Your Pearly Whites · These Arms Are Snakes

Your Pearly Whites · These Arms Are Snakes
EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 70 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART AB
OUTRO
16 groovesGBKFAB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Pearly Whites on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, silence through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54, silence through bars 55-56 and ride through bars 57-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-37, 42-47 and 49-53, and 4 more places -- 24.7% 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+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-x---------|
Your Pearly Whites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 58, 60, 62, 63 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-96 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-116 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-120 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Pearly Whites?

124 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 Your Pearly Whites hard to play on drums?

45 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Your Pearly Whites?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 24, 58, 60, 62, 63 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED