Pretender · Official髭男dism

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-43, and 6 more places -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
PRETENDER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 68 and 2 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 68-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-111.

VERSE
PART S3
PART D
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART L
OUTRO
VERSE 3
6 groovesBFDLS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretender?

92 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 Pretender hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pretender?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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