Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz · Herbie Hancock

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-14 and 19-21, and 4 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CANTALOUPE ISLAND - BEST OF BELWIN JAZZ · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDFS2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz?

120 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 Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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