The Ballad of Buck Ravers · Samurai

207 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-59, 61-66 and 114-121, and 2 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
THE BALLAD OF BUCK RAVERS · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75 and 13 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 26 sections: 98 keep time, 19 are fills, 65 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-35.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO
19 groovesIEABGL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad of Buck Ravers?

192 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 The Ballad of Buck Ravers hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 The Ballad of Buck Ravers?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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