africa · Rose Laurens

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-38, 41-43 and 45-60, and 3 more places -- 72.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AFRICA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-70.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHAFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is africa?

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 africa hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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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