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BACHIRA · Jun Murayama

BACHIRA · Jun Murayama
EXERCISE 2 OF 33
Groove C -- Chorus
14 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BACHIRA on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-36, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxx--xxxx--xxxx|--xxxx--xxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BACHIRA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-13 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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