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Pumped Up Kicks · 3teeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove C
60 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pumped Up Kicks on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------xx-x-x--|
Pumped Up Kicks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-97 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pumped Up Kicks?

91 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 Pumped Up Kicks hard to play on drums?

61 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?

97 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED