Pink Houses · John Mellencamp

136 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 5-10 and 39-40, and 2 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
PINK HOUSES · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 4 sections: 128 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-135.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pink Houses?

112 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?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pink Houses?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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