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Pink Houses · John Mellencamp

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pink Houses on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-29, snare through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-136.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Pink Houses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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