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Banditos · The Refreshments

Banditos · The Refreshments
EXERCISE 13 OF 18
Join Part D to Chorus 5 (bars 87-89)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 5
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
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Banditos on drums

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

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-37, toms through bars 38-49, hi-hat through bars 50-76, toms through bars 77-88 and snare through bars 89-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Banditos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-88 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 87-111 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED