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Batriders · Black Sky Giant, Alejandro Gonzalez

Batriders · Black Sky Giant, Alejandro Gonzalez
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesHAFS6CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Batriders on drums

162 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-106, silence through bars 107-129 and hi-hat through bars 130-162.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50 and 67-106 -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-107 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Batriders?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Batriders hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED