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Pretender · Official髭男dism

Pretender · Official髭男dism
EXERCISE 21 OF 24
3-bar fill at bar 68
95 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretender on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-18, snare through bars 19-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-112.

The beat

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.

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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Pretender -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-26 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-40 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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