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The pot (easier to read drums) · Tool

EXERCISE 18 OF 84
Groove K
55 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART J, PART N
PART B
PART J
PART Q
PART N
CHORUS
PART CB
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS12QBAQCL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The pot (easier to read drums) on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-101, silence through bars 102-104, toms through bars 105-110 and snare through bars 111-112, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---o---x---o---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x---------x-|
The pot (easier to read drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BU -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part BU and Part S14 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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