Pardon Me · Incubus

135 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 49 and 51, and 11 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
PARDON ME · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 16 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 36-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time, 22 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-107.

PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNHBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pardon Me?

152 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 Pardon Me hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pardon Me?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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