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Dear Prudence · Siouxsie And The Banshees

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Part B
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Prudence on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, toms through bars 63-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-95.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dear Prudence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-59 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-95 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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