Kanikule · The Blind Cow

33 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
1:06
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 13-16 and 19-26, and 1 more place -- 60.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KANIKULE · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 28.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars: 24 keep time, 6 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-26.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kanikule?

120 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 Kanikule hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

33 bars, about 1:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Kanikule?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 33 BARS ANALYSED
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