Buko · Jireh Lim

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BUKO · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 61, 69, 97 and 101.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 16 sections: 69 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
PART E
PART N
PART J
11 groovesBNJS4F+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buko?

95 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 Buko hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Buko?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 61, 69, 97 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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