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Pink Houses · John Mellencamp

EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pink Houses on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-126.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Pink Houses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-106 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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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