Baila Morena · Zucchero Fornaciari

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-89, 91 and 93, and 2 more places -- 94.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAILA MORENA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 2 sections: 118 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-119.

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

Questions

What BPM is Baila Morena?

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 Baila Morena hard to play on drums?

32 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Baila Morena?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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