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Kufi · Duman

EXERCISE 4 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
37 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCPAFE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kufi on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-49, ride through bars 50-53, silence through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37-44, and 5 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Kufi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 50, 52, 76, 83 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kufi?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kufi hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kufi?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 50, 52, 76, 83 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED