BACHIRA · Jun Murayama

68 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 31-32 and 61-68 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BACHIRA · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 17 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-58.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAFABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BACHIRA?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 BACHIRA hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 BACHIRA?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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