Pupus · Dewa

171 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-34, 37-38 and 41, and 19 more places -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PUPUS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 72, 80, 87 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time, 18 are fills, 44 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-32.

CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBUS1VFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pupus?

140 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 Pupus hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Pupus?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 72, 80, 87 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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