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Top Bunk · Gauntlet Hair

Top Bunk · Gauntlet Hair
EXERCISE 17 OF 46
2-bar fill at bar 51
78 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Top Bunk on drums

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

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, silence through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---------x-----------x-|
Top Bunk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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