ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pool on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 80 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 126
LENGTH: 7:50
DIFFICULTY: 47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-37, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-24, 33 and 35-36, and 2 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                             22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e
CC |x-----------------------------|------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x-o-----x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x--x----x--xx---x--x--|x-----x--x-x-x--x-----x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-----x-x-------|--x-----x-x-x-------x---------|
HF |------------------------------|------x---------------------x-|

Pool -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 15, 22, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- N, AS -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 6-60 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 13-23 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 29-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Pool?

80 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 Pool hard to play on drums?

47 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pool?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 15, 22, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED