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Benkei · Boy Hits Car

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDEFS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Benkei on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-24, ride through bars 25-39 and snare through bars 40-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 29-32 and 49-56, and 1 more place -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x-x-x-x-x-x--|
Benkei -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S9 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Benkei?

107 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 Benkei hard to play on drums?

61 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Benkei?

2 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED