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The Ballad of Buck Ravers · Samurai

EXERCISE 29 OF 66
Run L1 · Part L (bars 77-83)
104 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO
19 groovesIEABGL+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ballad of Buck Ravers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, silence through bars 8-9 and kick and crashes through bars 10-11, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
The Ballad of Buck Ravers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-16 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-52 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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