Ba-ba-dinga · dozo

32 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
0:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BA-BA-DINGA · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 20, 24 and 1 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 5 sections: 20 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ba-ba-dinga?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ba-ba-dinga hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 0:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ba-ba-dinga?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 20, 24 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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