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Pardon Me · Incubus

EXERCISE 15 OF 43
Run D1 · Part D (bars 17-29)
99 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pardon Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-76, ride through bars 77-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-109, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|--------------x-|
RD |--x-x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x---------x-|x---x---------x-|
Pardon Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-41 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-86 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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