Pretty Maids All in a Row · Eagles

110 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 33 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47 and 63.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 90 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-110.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCHS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Maids All in a Row?

105 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Maids All in a Row hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Maids All in a Row?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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