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Oh, Pretty Woman · Roy Orbison

Oh, Pretty Woman · Roy Orbison
EXERCISE 2 OF 29
Groove B -- Outro
43 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oh, Pretty Woman on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-22 and 24-27, and 4 more places -- 45.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Oh, Pretty Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-23 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Oh, Pretty Woman?

127 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 Oh, Pretty Woman hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Oh, Pretty Woman?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED