Pope Is a Rockstar · SALES

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 15-24 and 39-44, and 1 more place -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
POPE IS A ROCKSTAR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pope Is a Rockstar?

90 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 Pope Is a Rockstar hard to play on drums?

43 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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