Pokey Means Business · Earthbound

215 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 75-77, and 5 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
POKEY MEANS BUSINESS · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 35, 39, 49, 50, 51, 55 and 50 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 30 sections: 110 keep time, 56 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
7 groovesGJDOA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pokey Means Business?

124 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 Pokey Means Business hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pokey Means Business?

7 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 35, 39, 49, 50, 51, 55 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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