Politix · Balu Brigada

146 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-38, 59-81 and 83-114, and 1 more place -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
POLITIX · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 8 sections: 112 keep time and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBS2S6DE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Politix?

130 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 Politix hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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