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PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls) · Pear Jelly

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove M -- Part M
26 / 104 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGADPWB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, ride through bars 23-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
PotaToes (sucks at whammy controls) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G, AD -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-13 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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