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BABAYKA · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 6 OF 48
Groove E
73 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BABAYKA on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-35, silence through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-55, snare through bars 56-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-85, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
BABAYKA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-43 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-109 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-90 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part X -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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