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Time to pretend (band version) · MGMT

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove G -- Part G
70 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART E
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCEIGS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time to pretend (band version) on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, toms through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 21-24, and 10 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x--xx-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Time to pretend (band version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 59, 60 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-48 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-43 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Time to pretend (band version)?

101 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 Time to pretend (band version) 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Time to pretend (band version)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 59, 60 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED