Babooshka · Kate Bush

85 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:11 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16-23 and 31-46 -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BABOOSHKA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 6 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
5 groovesAS6FEHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Babooshka?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Babooshka hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Babooshka?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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