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Bunker · Balthazar

Bunker · Balthazar
EXERCISE 4 OF 7
Groove C
92 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bunker on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-65, silence through bars 66-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-63 and 81-95, and 3 more places -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x--x--x-------|
Bunker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 63-120 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bunker?

106 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 Bunker hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED