Popotitos · Los Teen Tops

108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12-14 and 16-18, and 16 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POPOTITOS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 4 sections: 100 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-91.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Popotitos?

140 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 Popotitos 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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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