Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) · Dnce

106 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 30 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
CAKE BY THE OCEAN (VER. 1) · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-78.

PART B
VERSE
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE 2
7 groovesEFBS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1)?

119 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 Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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