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Bulong (Original) · December Avenue

EXERCISE 16 OF 42
Run G1 · Part G (bars 71-97)
104 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
PART K
PART L
8 groovesBGS3KM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bulong (Original) on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-39, silence through bars 40-54, hi-hat through bars 55-98, toms through bars 99-106 and snare through bars 107-112, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-38, 56-61 and 141-145 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 90, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-137 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bulong (Original)?

135 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 (Original) hard to play on drums?

37 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (Original)?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 90, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED