Pokemon · Pokemon

117 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 29-34 and 58-63, and 3 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
POKEMON · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 37, 41, 45 and 6 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 12 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-115.

PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJHCALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pokemon?

144 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 Pokemon hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pokemon?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 37, 41, 45 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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