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The Pretender · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Fill at bar 25 and 43
51 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFS1DO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Pretender on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-32, snare through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-36, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 33-34 and 37-38, and 7 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--x--x-x--xx--|
The Pretender -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 30, 39, 43 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 37-58 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Pretender?

87 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 The Pretender hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

96 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Pretender?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 30, 39, 43 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED