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Pop 3 · Wyatt Woodruff

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesFSCS8L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pop 3 on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-61, ride through bars 62-66, hi-hat through bars 67-72 and silence through bars 73-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 5 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xg--|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Pop 3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 14, 22 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-57 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pop 3?

134 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 Pop 3 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 Pop 3?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 14, 22 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED