Africa v2 · TOTO

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23-24 and 32-33, and 9 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
AFRICA V2 · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 96 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-72.

CHORUS
PART B
PART G
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
5 groovesEALBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Africa v2?

96 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 v2 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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