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Banditos (Artem Komlev cover) · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 21 OF 83
Groove L -- Outro 2
93 / 256 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesAEGNBL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Banditos (Artem Komlev cover) on drums

256 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-42, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60, 64 and 68, and 16 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
SD |x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Banditos (Artem Komlev cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 26, 32 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-13 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-231 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Banditos (Artem Komlev cover)?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Banditos (Artem Komlev cover) hard to play on drums?

63 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Banditos (Artem Komlev cover)?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 26, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED