Pop · Wyatt Woodruff

126 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-58, 73-80 and 85 -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
POP · BARS 50-51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 9, 13, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 33 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 38-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 65 keep time, 39 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

PART E
CHORUS
PART X
PART AB
PART X
PART AG
PART AL
PART AB
11 groovesLABXAGE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pop?

161 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 Pop hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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?

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 9, 13, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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