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Bangarang · Skrillex

Bangarang · Skrillex
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bangarang on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-68 and toms through bars 69-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 6 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|x-----------x---|
HH |--o---o---o-----|--o---o---o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Bangarang -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 13-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-77 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bangarang?

110 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 Bangarang hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bangarang?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 52 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED