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Bajan · Pescado Rabioso

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove K -- Part K
19 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART P
PART G
OUTRO
8 groovesCIKS1P+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bajan on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and ride through bars 44-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-16 and 36-37, and 1 more place -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Bajan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 35 and 43.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-64 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-57 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-72 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bajan?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bajan hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 35 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED