banana pie · Lil Darkie

48 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-27 and 29-39 -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BANANA PIE · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 28 and 40.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 34 keep time, 4 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is banana pie?

86 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 banana pie hard to play on drums?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in banana pie?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 28 and 40.

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