Boa Sorte · Vanessa Da Mata, Ben Harper

104 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Electronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-28 and 33-79, and 2 more places -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BOA SORTE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 98 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-88.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boa Sorte?

110 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 Boa Sorte hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 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 · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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