Brass In Pocket · The Pretenders

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-14 and 17-25, and 2 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BRASS IN POCKET · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 49.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 2 sections: 67 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-48.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brass In Pocket?

95 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 Brass In Pocket hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Brass In Pocket?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 15 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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