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pretend · Alex G

EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Groove E -- Part E
52 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEVS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play pretend on drums

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

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-87.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-----xxx-----x|
pretend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 23-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-83 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED