Kurwy · Sznur

195 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-43 -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
KURWY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 46, 54, 64, 66, 68, 72 and 17 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 12 sections: 138 keep time, 23 are fills, 3 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART O
PART Q
PART O
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesAOFQS12+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kurwy?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Kurwy hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Kurwy?

15 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 46, 54, 64, 66, 68, 72 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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