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Precious · Depeche Mode

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

How to play Precious on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 17-22 and 35-44, and 2 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Precious -- 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 10 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-93 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Precious?

106 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 Precious hard to play on drums?

38 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED