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Pretty Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom) · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Fill at bar 63 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, snare through bars 17-30, ride through bars 31-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and snare through bars 49-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Pretty Vacant (Live @ Longhorn Ballroom) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-40 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-94 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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