kaçakçı kurban · Ahmet Kaya

100 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 72 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 35 and 38, and 4 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
KAÇAKÇI KURBAN · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 32, 50, 55, 70 and 100.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-99.

PART A
PART D
PART E
PART D
PART E
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBADEIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kaçakçı kurban?

72 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is kaçakçı kurban hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 kaçakçı kurban?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 32, 50, 55, 70 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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