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Poundcake · Van Halen

EXERCISE 6 OF 38
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 8-10)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDOCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Poundcake on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 3-48, snare through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70, snare through bars 71-78, hi-hat through bars 79-92 and snare through bars 93-99, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-17 and 20, and 32 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-xx----|
Poundcake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 46, 48, 50 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-86 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Poundcake?

110 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 Poundcake hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Poundcake?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 46, 48, 50 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED