Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) · The Offspring

110 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 15 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
PRETTY FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 41, 42 and 7 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 12 sections: 77 keep time, 13 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-102.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFIKOC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)?

142 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 Fly (For A White Guy) hard to play on drums?

61 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fly (For A White Guy)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 41, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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