Khat · Navjot Ahuja

167 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 3:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19 and 23, and 22 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
KHAT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 20, 46, 70 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 16 sections: 76 keep time, 15 are fills, 55 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-62.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 5
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesHNEDS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Khat?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Khat hard to play on drums?

40 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Khat?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 20, 46, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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