Top Bunk · Gauntlet Hair

153 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 38-39, and 5 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
TOP BUNK · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 51, 52, 55, 56, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 19 sections: 106 keep time, 8 are fills, 15 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-30.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
14 groovesHATXAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Top Bunk?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Top Bunk hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Top Bunk?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 51, 52, 55, 56, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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