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Pretenders · Darko US

EXERCISE 12 OF 54
Join Part A to Break (bars 6-8)
90 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART V
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDJYAEV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretenders on drums

136 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-86, ride through bars 87-88, snare through bars 89-112, hi-hat through bars 113-120 and snare through bars 121-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 26 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pretenders -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 28, 32, 48 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-26 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretenders?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pretenders hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Pretenders?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 28, 32, 48 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED