Cheri Cheri Lady · Modern Talking

110 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 22-41 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 68.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
CHERI CHERI LADY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 103 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-109.

PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheri Cheri Lady?

122 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 Cheri Cheri Lady hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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