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Poison Berry Pie · Of That Nature

Poison Berry Pie · Of That Nature
EXERCISE 1 OF 69
Groove I -- Part I
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PART C
PART I
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poison Berry Pie on drums

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.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-69, ride through bars 70-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    48
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------o-------x-------x-------x-------o-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x-------x---x-----------------------|
Poison Berry Pie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-38 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-43 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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