Brass In Pocket (with Bass) · Pretenders

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
43/100
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 18-25, and 3 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BRASS IN POCKET (WITH BASS) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 2 sections: 69 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-72.

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

Questions

What BPM is Brass In Pocket (with Bass)?

98 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 (with Bass) hard to play on drums?

43 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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