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Buckwild · Buckwild

Buckwild · Buckwild
EXERCISE 18 OF 48
Groove I -- Part I
50 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
PART E
PART I
PART S8
PART Q
PART T
BREAK
OUTRO
12 groovesXQHS12B+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buckwild on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-37, silence through bars 38-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 79-81, 83-85 and 87-89, and 3 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79               80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-|----------------|
Buckwild -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 45 and 4 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 -- X, R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Buckwild?

140 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 Buckwild hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Buckwild?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 45 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED