Abracadabra · Lady Gaga

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 46-50 and 56-60, and 4 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ABRACADABRA · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 21 sections: 111 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFGDS1C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abracadabra?

120 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 Abracadabra hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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