Soda Pop · Kpop Demon

84 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-22, 37-43 and 48-52, and 1 more place -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
SODA POP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-22.

CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS4AHC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soda Pop?

126 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 Soda Pop hard to play on drums?

27 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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