Poverty of Self · Currents

192 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-26, 65-78 and 95 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
POVERTY OF SELF · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 60, 63, 64 and 2 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 13 sections: 118 keep time, 8 are fills, 44 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-119.

PART D
PART F
PART N
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesTFNZJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Poverty of Self?

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

Is Poverty of Self hard to play on drums?

67 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?

192 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Poverty of Self?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 4, 28, 60, 63, 64 and 2 more.

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