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Promiscuous · Nelly Furtado

Promiscuous · Nelly Furtado
EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 108 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Promiscuous on drums

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

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-114.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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