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Puppy Princess · Hot Freaks

Puppy Princess · Hot Freaks
EXERCISE 13 OF 39
Groove G -- Part G
90 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Puppy Princess on drums

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.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-129.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxoo-xooxxoo-xoo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Puppy Princess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-22 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-119 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-107 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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