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Babooshka · Kate Bush

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
5 groovesAS6FEHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Babooshka on drums

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.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
27/100

snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-31, snare through bars 32-46, hi-hat through bars 47-57 and silence through bars 58-85.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
SD |x-----------x-----------|
HF |------x---x-------x---x-|
Babooshka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED