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Kuka · Kuka

Kuka · Kuka
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIDGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kuka on drums

104 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-39, snare through bars 40-55, hi-hat through bars 56-71 and snare through bars 72-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 36, and 19 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Kuka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 44, 45, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- I, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-91 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kuka?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Kuka hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 44, 45, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED