Bandoliers · Them Crooked Vultures

176 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 10-13 and 18-21, and 4 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BANDOLIERS · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 22 and 34 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 16 sections: 114 keep time, 40 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-125.

CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDAPACKQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bandoliers?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Bandoliers hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bandoliers?

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 14, 15, 16, 22 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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