Pennies · Smashing Pumpkins

70 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-16, 18 and 21-24, and 4 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PENNIES · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 25, 26, 42, 43, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 42-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 67-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 4 sections: 50 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pennies?

120 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 Pennies hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Pennies?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 25, 26, 42, 43, 44 and 7 more.

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