churka · The Churka's Killers

18 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 0:28 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:28
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
CHURKA · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

18 bars across 4 sections: 14 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBADEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is churka?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is churka hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 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.

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