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Popstitute · Indochine

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 11 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesFAS3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Popstitute on drums

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

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
34/100

ride through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-55, snare through bars 56-73, silence through bars 74-84 and snare through bars 85-93.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
Popstitute -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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, F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-93 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED