Time To Pretend · MGMT

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.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-24, and 10 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
TIME TO PRETEND · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 16 sections: 75 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-104.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCEDGS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time To Pretend?

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 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 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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?

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

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