Botchla · Poison The Well

99 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 45 and 47, and 9 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BOTCHLA · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBQS1Y+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Botchla?

138 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 Botchla hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Botchla?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 14 more.

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