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Pretty Noose · Soundgarden

Pretty Noose · Soundgarden
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EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove AC -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Noose on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-23, ride through bars 24-32, toms through bars 33-43, ride through bars 44-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-79.

The beat

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.

    66                               67
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---xxxx|
T2 |----x-x-------------------------|----x-x-------------------------|
FT |------------x---x---------------|------------x---x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Pretty Noose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-66 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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