Dear Prudence · Siouxsie And The Banshees

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-17, and 4 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
DEAR PRUDENCE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 18, 21, 37, 47 and 8 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-95.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBPML+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Prudence?

102 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 Dear Prudence hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dear Prudence?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 18, 21, 37, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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