ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tampon Lollipops on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 177
LENGTH: 4:38
DIFFICULTY: 67/100

silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-49 and kick and crashes through bars 50-52, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-70 and 80-87 -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64                                               65
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----------------------------|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|---x-----x-----x-----x--------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|

Tampon Lollipops -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 30, 45, 105, 111, 113 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 19-31 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 14 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Tampon Lollipops?

150 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 Tampon Lollipops hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Tampon Lollipops?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 29, 30, 45, 105, 111, 113 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED