Bozo · King Parrot

124 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 21-23 and 46-51, and 2 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BOZO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 20, 24 and 32 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 24-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 60 keep time, 38 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AH
PART W
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHWAEAHA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bozo?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bozo hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Bozo?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 20, 24 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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