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Plowed · Sponge

Plowed · Sponge
EXERCISE 5 OF 6
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 134-136)
146 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plowed on drums

157 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-155 and kick and crashes through bars 156-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-61, 63-135 and 137-155 -- 98.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Plowed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Plowed?

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 Plowed hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED