Bulong · Kitchie Nadal

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11-16, and 5 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BULONG · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDFACB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bulong?

100 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 Bulong hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Bulong?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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