Product of My Environment · Jarhead Fertilizer

172 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-87, 121 and 124-137 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PRODUCT OF MY ENVIRONMENT · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 26 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 97 keep time, 32 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-96.

PART E
CHORUS
PART R
PART AB
PART AG
PART AH
PART AC
PART AO
OUTRO
14 groovesIACABRAH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Product of My Environment?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Product of My Environment hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Product of My Environment?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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