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Bass Makossa (5 exercises) · Bass Exercises

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Outro 2
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0 / 9 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bass Makossa (5 exercises) on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-54, snare through bars 55-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-78.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x--xx-x-x--xx-x-|
SD |---x-------x--x-|
BD |x---x-x-x---x---|
Bass Makossa (5 exercises) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED