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Just Pretend · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 27 OF 34
Join Part J to Chorus 3 (bars 84-86)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Pretend on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19, snare through bars 20-26, toms through bars 27-29, silence through bars 30-36 and toms through bars 37-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
Just Pretend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-79 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-85 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-105 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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