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EXERCISE 21 OF 58
Groove N
124 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AC
OUTRO
9 groovesCHACAIS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PRAY on drums

194 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
185 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-69 and snare through bars 70-76, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 21-23 and 53, and 15 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-|
PRAY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AC -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-137 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-46 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-81 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PRAY?

185 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is PRAY 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 PRAY?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED