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Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) · The Offspring

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 3-38, ride through bars 39-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-70, ride through bars 71-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-27 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-40 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-87 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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