The pot (easier to read drums) · Tool

181 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 41, and 6 more places -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 209 BPM
THE POT (EASIER TO READ DRUMS) · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 77 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BARS 14-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 65 keep time, 83 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART B
PART Q
PART N
CHORUS
PART CB
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS12QBAQCL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The pot (easier to read drums)?

209 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The pot (easier to read drums) hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 The pot (easier to read drums)?

18 fills to learn, played 83 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 77 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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