PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls) · Pear Jelly

104 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19 and 57-63 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 189 BPM
POTATOES (SUCKS AT WHAMMY CONTROLS) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 19 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-104.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGADPWB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls)?

189 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls)?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 23, 24, 28 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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