Chan Chan · Buena Vista Social Club

53 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52 -- 98.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CHAN CHAN · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars: 52 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-52.

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

Questions

What BPM is Chan Chan?

90 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 Chan Chan hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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