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Bakterion · Brou

EXERCISE 19 OF 62
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 26-28)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART L
PART S
PART L
PART A
14 groovesCLSJA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bakterion on drums

255 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-70, ride through bars 71-95, silence through bars 96-102, hi-hat through bars 103-118 and ride through bars 119-142, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-94, 127-141 and 199-213 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Bakterion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 46-126 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-109 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bakterion?

200 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 Bakterion hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Bakterion?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED