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Prince · Deftones

EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Join Intro to Part D (bars 15-17)
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INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesADGKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prince on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, snare through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-93, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-15, 25-39 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|--x-x-----------|
Prince -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 56, 60, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-126 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-110 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Prince?

150 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 Prince hard to play on drums?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Prince?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 56, 60, 64 and 7 more.

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