ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play &(^&%&$&*POPPERMAN#$#%$#%^&@**# on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 147
LENGTH: 3:44
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-45, hi-hat through bars 46-73, snare through bars 74-88 and toms through bars 89-90, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14                                               15
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |---x-----x-----x--x-----o-----------x-----x--x--|x--x-----x-----x--x-----o-----------x-----x--x--|
SD |------------g-----------x--------g-----g--------|------g-----g-----------x-----------------------|
T1 |------------------------------x-----------------|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------x--------------x--------x-----|

&*(^&%&$*&*POPPERMAN#$#%$#%^&@**# -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 33, 37, 45, 53 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 12 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Bars 2-14 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 28-34 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is &(^&%&$&*POPPERMAN#$#%$#%^&@**#?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 &(^&%&$&*POPPERMAN#$#%$#%^&@**# hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 &(^&%&$&*POPPERMAN#$#%$#%^&@**#?