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Around Here, The Potaters Bake You · Deadbeat Nightlife

EXERCISE 19 OF 91
3-bar fill at bar 6
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0 / 91 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Around Here, The Potaters Bake You on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
82/100

toms through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-42, ride through bars 43-58, toms through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-92 and ride through bars 93-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x-----------x--x-----------x--------x-----|
Around Here, The Potaters Bake You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 14-38 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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