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Pulang · Insomniacks

EXERCISE 38 OF 49
Groove Y -- Part Y
98 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEHS11T+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pulang on drums

120 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 81 BPM, 4:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 34-40 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x----x----x-|
Pulang -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 25, 30, 31, 33, 41 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-50 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-88 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pulang?

81 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pulang hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pulang?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 25, 30, 31, 33, 41 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED