PRETTY PLEASE · Dutch Melrose

84 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 31-35 and 37-43, and 1 more place -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
PRETTY PLEASE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 56, 68, 72 and 84.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 5 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBECJS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PRETTY PLEASE?

122 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?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in PRETTY PLEASE?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 56, 68, 72 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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