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Under Pressure · Queen, David Bowie

Under Pressure · Queen, David Bowie
EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART S
PART U
PART V
PART W
OUTRO
11 groovesDJCFA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under Pressure on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59, ride through bars 60-68, toms through bars 69-75, snare through bars 76-85, hi-hat through bars 86-108 and kick and crashes through bars 109-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-24, 26 and 40-42, and 2 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Under Pressure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 57, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-34 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-77 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under Pressure?

114 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 Under Pressure hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 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 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 Under Pressure?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 57, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED