Soda Pop · saja boys

77 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-24 and 34-41, and 2 more places -- 55.7% 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 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBS3EAS1+3Fill 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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