Pop Virus · Gen Hoshino

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
POP VIRUS · BARS 20-21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 55
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 4 sections: 44 keep time, 1 is a fill and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-54.

COUNT-IN
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesGS1CS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pop Virus?

78 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 Virus hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pop Virus?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 55.

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