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Bulong · Kitchie Nadal

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove D -- Part D
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bulong on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, ride through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, J -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-56 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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