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Pretty Noose - Soundgarden · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove P -- Chorus
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0 / 41 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesPAIAUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Noose - Soundgarden on drums

79 bars, 4:10, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
86/100

ride through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-23, ride through bars 24-33, toms through bars 34-43 and ride through bars 44-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28 and 44, and 6 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Pretty Noose - Soundgarden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, C (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-32 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretty Noose - Soundgarden?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pretty Noose - Soundgarden hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 - Soundgarden?

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED