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Bakamitai · taxi driver

Bakamitai · taxi driver
EXERCISE 27 OF 48
Fill at bar 50 (a small one)
63 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesREBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bakamitai on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-54, ride through bars 55-57, hi-hat through bars 58-60, ride through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Bakamitai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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