PLEDGE · Spite

102 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 57, and 10 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PLEDGE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 18 and 18 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 11 sections: 46 keep time, 24 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-12.

PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART AG
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSHAGKA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PLEDGE?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 PLEDGE hard to play on drums?

64 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 PLEDGE?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 18 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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