Bodhidharma · Agriculture

177 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BODHIDHARMA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 86, 125, 126, 127, 130 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 125-127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 140-142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 11 sections: 100 keep time, 29 are fills, 7 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-78.

PART A
PART I
PART C
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
BREAK 4
10 groovesQIACS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bodhidharma?

130 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 Bodhidharma 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bodhidharma?

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 86, 125, 126, 127, 130 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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