54-46 Was My Number · Toots And The Maytals

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 14 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
54-46 WAS MY NUMBER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 8 sections: 58 keep time, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-73.

PART S3
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 54-46 Was My Number?

80 BPM, in 4/4, 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 54-46 Was My Number 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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