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Pretty Babies · Dishwalla

Pretty Babies · Dishwalla
EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Join Part C to Part D (bars 9-11)
108 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
PART D
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesHFCDE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Babies on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-83, snare through bars 84-87, hi-hat through bars 88-103, silence through bars 104-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50, 67-74 and 76-83, and 2 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x--x--|
Pretty Babies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 66 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 23-46 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-87 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretty Babies?

98 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 Pretty Babies hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pretty Babies?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 66 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED