The Pot · Tool

181 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 6:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 133-134, 136-137 and 139-140, and 2 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 · 107 BPM
THE POT · BARS 133-134
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 78 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 14-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 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, 84 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART CN
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQS12BCWCN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Pot?

107 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 The Pot hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 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?

21 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 78 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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