Birsana Sakdina · Buds

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-33, 36-48 and 53-77, and 3 more places -- 90% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BIRSANA SAKDINA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 2 sections: 119 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-93.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birsana Sakdina?

120 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 Birsana Sakdina hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Birsana Sakdina?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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