Just Pretend · Bad Omens

110 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24 and 26, and 9 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
JUST PRETEND · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 25, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 16 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 37-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 16 sections: 47 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S8
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDOBS1S5+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Pretend?

140 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 Just Pretend hard to play on drums?

47 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?

110 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Just Pretend?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 23, 25, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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