Buffalo Soldier · Bob Marley

133 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-133 -- 96.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BUFFALO SOLDIER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 2 sections: 131 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-133.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buffalo Soldier?

121 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 Buffalo Soldier hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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