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Playdough · The Aquabats!

EXERCISE 28 OF 53
Fill at bar 84 and 141
146 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Playdough on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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