BABAYKA · Slaughter To Prevail

160 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 11 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BABAYKA · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 89, 93, 97, 101 and 6 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 16 sections: 90 keep time, 12 are fills, 35 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-53.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART C
PART I
PART S12
PART AL
OUTRO
12 groovesGAKXC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BABAYKA?

175 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 BABAYKA hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 BABAYKA?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 89, 93, 97, 101 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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