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Prom Queen · Beach Bunny

EXERCISE 13 OF 18
Run C1 · Part C (bars 35-51)
68 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prom Queen on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-20, ride through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 25, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----xx--xx|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x-x---x---|
Prom Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D (a two-bar phrase), C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-38 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Prom Queen?

140 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 Prom Queen hard to play on drums?

49 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 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 Prom Queen?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED