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Dear Prudence · The Beatles

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
9-bar fill at bar 44
27 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCDRS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Prudence on drums

60 bars, 3:13, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-30 and silence through bars 31-32, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18 and 33-40 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |----x-x-----x-x-|
Dear Prudence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear Prudence?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dear Prudence hard to play on drums?

52 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

1 fill to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED