Pretty Noose · Soundgarden

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60 and 66-73 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
PRETTY NOOSE · BARS 66-67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 32 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 26 keep time, 38 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-58.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesUAZACAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Noose?

76 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Noose hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 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 Noose?

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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