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Bodhidharma · Agriculture

Bodhidharma · Agriculture
EXERCISE 28 OF 33
Groove AA
129 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bodhidharma on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-30, hi-hat through bars 31-57, snare through bars 58-91, kick and crashes through bars 92-94 and silence through bars 95-104, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-X-----|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
Bodhidharma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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