Promiscuous · Nelly Furtado

114 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-38, 41-77 and 79-106, and 1 more place -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
PROMISCUOUS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 4 sections: 111 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-77.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Promiscuous?

114 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 Promiscuous hard to play on drums?

53 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?

114 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Promiscuous?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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