Playdough · The Aquabats!

186 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PLAYDOUGH · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 60, 64, 67, 72, 76 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 10 sections: 126 keep time, 19 are fills, 26 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-55.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesGKAAPA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playdough?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Playdough hard to play on drums?

60 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Playdough?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 60, 64, 67, 72, 76 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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