Baccara · Yes Sir I Can Boogie

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 20-33 and 36-38, and 14 more places -- 77.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BACCARA · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 2 sections: 110 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-119.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baccara?

104 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 Baccara hard to play on drums?

40 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?

119 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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