ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bartzabel on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 134
LENGTH: 4:52
DIFFICULTY: 61/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-32, silence through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-64 and snare through bars 65-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 73-79, and 1 more place -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49                                               50
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x--x--x--x--x-----|x-----------------------------------------------|

Bartzabel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 56, 80, 89, 90, 94, 96 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 31-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Bars 49-116 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part J and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 93-116 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Bartzabel?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bartzabel hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bartzabel?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 56, 80, 89, 90, 94, 96 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED