Pretty Please · Dua Lipa

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 18-25 and 27-41, and 3 more places -- 81.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 107 BPM
PRETTY PLEASE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-66.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBCS9S1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Please?

107 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 Please hard to play on drums?

50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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