Bass Makossa (5 exercises) · Bass Exercises

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-54 and 71-78 -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BASS MAKOSSA (5 EXERCISES) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-78.

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

Questions

What BPM is Bass Makossa (5 exercises)?

100 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 Bass Makossa (5 exercises) hard to play on drums?

48 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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