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Teenage Dream · Katy Perry

EXERCISE 12 OF 14
Run D2 · Chorus 2 (bars 60-82)
104 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesDBS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teenage Dream on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

49 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
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-82, silence through bars 83-86 and ride through bars 87-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42, 59-82 and 87-110 -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-63 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Teenage Dream?

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 Teenage Dream hard to play on drums?

49 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Teenage Dream?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED