Popstitute · Indochine

93 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
POPSTITUTE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 4 sections: 18 keep time, 1 is a fill, 62 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesFAS3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Popstitute?

138 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 Popstitute hard to play on drums?

34 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Popstitute?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 17.

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