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Bandoliers · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bandoliers on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-77, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|x---x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
HF |----------------|x---x-----------|
Bandoliers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- D, AC -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-81 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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