Pink Houses · John Mellencamp

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-34 and 87-103 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PINK HOUSES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 6 sections: 117 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-37.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pink Houses?

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 Pink Houses hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 9 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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