Gula · First Fragment

333 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
333
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 166-168, 170-172 and 174-176, and 6 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
GULA · BAR 167
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 45 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

333 bars across 39 sections: 212 keep time, 51 are fills, 28 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-188.

PART R
PART J
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AF
18 groovesAJAFDR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gula?

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

Is Gula hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

333 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 30 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 Gula?

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 10, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 333 BARS ANALYSED
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