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Banquet · Bloc Party

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove H -- Part H
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART C
PART F
PART H
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Banquet on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-121.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Banquet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-90 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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