Bakamitai · taxi driver

87 bars, 4:41, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12-13 and 15, and 3 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAKAMITAI · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 27, 30 and 15 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-41.

PART E
PART B
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesREBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bakamitai?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bakamitai hard to play on drums?

54 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Bakamitai?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 27, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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