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pole · chacu mroic
EXERCISE 28 OF 67
Groove BG -- Part BG
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0 / 67 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART BG
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play pole on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, ride through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-38 and ride through bars 39-60, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23             24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x-------------|x-------------|
HH |----o---o---o-|----o-x-o-----|
SD |--------x-----|----------f---|
BD |x-----x---x---|x---x-x-x---x-|
pole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- V, AH -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CP -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-164 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-26 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part BG -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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