Bongo Bong · Manu Chao

66 bars, 2:50, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Hip Hop / ReggaeElectronicUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 20 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BONGO BONG · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars: 65 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bongo Bong?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bongo Bong hard to play on drums?

57 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?

66 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Bongo Bong?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 66.

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