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Kung Fu · Ash

EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Groove G -- Part G
68 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kung Fu on drums

91 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, toms through bars 53-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 22 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Kung Fu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-60 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 46-70 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kung Fu?

180 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 Kung Fu hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kung Fu?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED