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EXERCISE 18 OF 45
3-bar fill at bar 11
35 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART M
PART S7
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJMPYS7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretty Visitors on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-42, silence through bars 43-49, snare through bars 50-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-25 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                                                               19
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|
SD |----x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------x-x-x------------x-----x----|----x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------------------|
T1 |----------x---------------x---------------x---------------------|----------x---------------x---------------x---------------------|
T2 |------------x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------x-x------x-----x----|------------x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------x-x-----------------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x----x-----x----|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Pretty Visitors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-14 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-18 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 16-36 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-61 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretty Visitors?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Visitors hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pretty Visitors?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED