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Pokey Means Business · Earthbound

Pokey Means Business · Earthbound
EXERCISE 17 OF 44
Groove I
115 / 215 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 7
7 groovesGJDOA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pokey Means Business on drums

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

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pokey Means Business -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-28 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 42-49 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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