Around Here, The Potaters Bake You · Deadbeat Nightlife

133 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
AROUND HERE, THE POTATERS BAKE YOU · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 48 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 54 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-102.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART U
PART AB
PART AD
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHANABAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Around Here, The Potaters Bake You?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Around Here, The Potaters Bake You hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Around Here, The Potaters Bake You?

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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