pretend · Alex G

87 bars, 5:58, at 58 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-25 and 34-52, and 4 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 58 BPM
PRETEND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 59 and 63.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEVS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is pretend?

58 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is pretend hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in pretend?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 59 and 63.

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