Poison Berry Pie · Of That Nature

123 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 48-49, and 2 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
POISON BERRY PIE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 25, 26, 29 and 34 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 40 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-89.

PART C
PART L
PART N
PART C
PART I
PART AI
PART AQ
OUTRO
12 groovesS14AQCIL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poison Berry Pie?

114 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 Poison Berry Pie hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Poison Berry Pie?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 25, 26, 29 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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