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Bendera · Cokelat

Bendera · Cokelat
EXERCISE 35 OF 55
Run S1 · Part S (bars 81-91)
149 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART J
CHORUS
PART S
PART N
PART X
PART S
OUTRO
13 groovesONSGJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bendera on drums

184 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100

ride through bars 3-4, silence through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12 and snare through bars 13-16, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 5 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Bendera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- N, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-17 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-61 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-93 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-184 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bendera?

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 Bendera hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bendera?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED