Pudding Time · Primus

127 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-33, 45-47 and 111-113 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
PUDDING TIME · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 36 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 17 sections: 65 keep time, 42 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-109.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART AU
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCQTYAJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pudding Time?

124 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 Pudding Time hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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 Pudding Time?

20 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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