Pop 'N' Gum · Superbus

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 220 BPM, 2:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27 and 37-43 -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
POP 'N' GUM · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 4 sections: 31 keep time, 19 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-54.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS4HAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pop 'N' Gum?

220 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Pop 'N' Gum hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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.

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