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Pretty Please · Dua Lipa

EXERCISE 10 OF 10
Play the whole song with the record
80 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBCS9S1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Please on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-17, hi-hat through bars 18-66, silence through bars 67-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-85.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Pretty Please -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED