Pretty Vacant · Sex Pistols

113 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

148 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

113

LENGTH

3:03

DIFFICULTY

53/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-31, ride through bars 32-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-50, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 51-52, and 13 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 24, 27, 46 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Bars 29-64 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Bars 62-94 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.