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The Pod · Hum

EXERCISE 30 OF 63
Run R1 · Part R (bars 74-79)
95 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART Z
OUTRO
9 groovesFKZAHC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Pod on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, ride through bars 38-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59, ride through bars 60-79 and snare through bars 80-83, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 30-36, and 3 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|----------------|
HH |--o---o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x---x--x--x-x|x-xx---x-xx--xx-|
The Pod -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 40 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-63 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Pod?

112 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 The Pod hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Pod?

14 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 37, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED