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BU2B · Rush

EXERCISE 23 OF 64
Fill at bar 77 (a small one)
115 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBARS3E+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BU2B on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 32 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X---------X---X-|
BU2B -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-25 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-74 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-105 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part R and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 111-133 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BU2B?

150 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 BU2B hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 BU2B?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED