Puppy Princess · Hot Freaks

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 34 and 36-37, and 6 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PUPPY PRINCESS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 80 and 82.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 104 keep time, 3 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-65.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
PART K
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART K
PART T
PART G
PART A
OUTRO
8 groovesHEKAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Puppy Princess?

120 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 Puppy Princess 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Puppy Princess?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 80 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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