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Pretend (Revisited/Live) · Pebblebrain

EXERCISE 9 OF 42
Run D1 · Part D (bars 7-16)
42 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCODIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretend (Revisited/Live) on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 25-26 and 45-46, and 5 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|x---x-----------|
HH |o-----o-o---o---|o-----o-o-------|
SD |----x--x----x-xx|----x--x--xxxxxx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-------|
Pretend (Revisited/Live) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 67, 68, 80, 85 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E (a two-bar phrase), D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretend (Revisited/Live)?

120 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 Pretend (Revisited/Live) hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Pretend (Revisited/Live)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 67, 68, 80, 85 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED