podil · idioma

94 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 4 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PODIL · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 32, 38, 39 and 14 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesEHRBK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is podil?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 podil hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in podil?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 32, 38, 39 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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