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Pleasure Dome · Van Halen

EXERCISE 7 OF 76
Groove F -- Part F
58 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART F
PART H
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART BX
PART CP
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAHHBXCPAU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 6
JOIN · 20
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pleasure Dome on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 10:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-74, toms through bars 75-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-102, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-49, 51-53 and 55-56, and 12 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oo-oo-oooo-ooo-o|
SD |-----x--------x-|
BD |xx-xx--xxx--xx-x|
Pleasure Dome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 50, 94, 166, 174, 180, 181 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-19 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-42 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-87 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pleasure Dome?

87 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 Pleasure Dome hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 10:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pleasure Dome?

5 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 50, 94, 166, 174, 180, 181 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED