kebyar kebyar · gombloh

124 bars, 7:07, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
7:07
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 58-60 and 66-67, and 7 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
KEBYAR KEBYAR · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 57, 63, 64, 68 and 111.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 17 sections: 44 keep time, 6 are fills, 8 are stops and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-123.

BREAK
PART S7
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDFS12S3S7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kebyar kebyar?

70 BPM, in 4/4, 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 kebyar kebyar 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 kebyar kebyar?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 57, 63, 64, 68 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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