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Bongo Bong · Manu Chao

Bongo Bong · Manu Chao
EXERCISE 9 OF 9
Play the whole song with the record
66 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bongo Bong on drums

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

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a
SD |xxr-xxr-|
BD |x-x-x---|
HF |--xx--xx|
Bongo Bong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED