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Pope Is a Rockstar · SALES

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pope Is a Rockstar on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-24, silence through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Pope Is a Rockstar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-64 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED