Banquet · Bloc Party

121 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 33 and 37-39, and 4 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BANQUET · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-71.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKHFCY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Banquet?

150 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 Banquet hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Banquet?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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