Pretty Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom) · Sex Pistols

113 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-30 and 49-62, and 5 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
PRETTY VACANT (LIVE @ LONGHORN BALLROOM) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 20, 31, 39, 48, 63 and 6 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 12 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-62.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesEHJS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom)?

152 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 Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom) hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 20, 31, 39, 48, 63 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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