pole · chacu mroic

197 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-29 and 100-106 -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
POLE · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 18 sections: 114 keep time, 55 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-63.

PART A
PART K
PART V
CHORUS
PART BG
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 4
14 groovesAHVKS18CU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is pole?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is pole hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 pole?

12 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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