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Bahama Mama · 4lyn

Bahama Mama · 4lyn
EXERCISE 5 OF 37
Fill at bar 25 and 47 (a small one)
45 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART M
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIDFS1B+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bahama Mama on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-32, ride through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58 and ride through bars 59-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-42, 62-68 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x----x--x---|
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x-x-|
FT |----------------|---------------x|
BD |x--x----x--x----|x--x----x-------|
Bahama Mama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-56 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bahama Mama?

95 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 Bahama Mama hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Bahama Mama?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 34, 35, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED