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Pretzel Logic · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove D -- Part D
34 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART Z
PART D
PART I
PART G
PART R
PART I
PART Z
PART AC
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTIGACZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pretzel Logic on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, toms through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-56, 83-90 and 95-98 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o---x---x---o---x---x---o---x---x---o---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---x-----------------------|
Pretzel Logic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 58, 68, 69, 70 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- T, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pretzel Logic?

94 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 Pretzel Logic hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Pretzel Logic?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 9, 58, 68, 69, 70 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED