Banditos · The Refreshments

117 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-26, 31-37 and 50-65, and 3 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BANDITOS · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-26.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDCS1EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Banditos?

160 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 Banditos 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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