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PRETTY PLEASE · Dutch Melrose

PRETTY PLEASE · Dutch Melrose
EXERCISE 14 OF 26
Groove F
61 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PRETTY PLEASE on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, ride through bars 49-61, silence through bars 62-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and ride through bars 69-84.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
PRETTY PLEASE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-49 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part S10 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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