Bumbum · Anotolica

160 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 55-56 and 59-60, and 4 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BUMBUM · BARS 59-60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 16, 18, 24 and 43 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 49 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-73.

PART G
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUGAPKAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bumbum?

147 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 Bumbum hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Bumbum?

24 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 16, 18, 24 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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