Daa Daa · Sammy Babitzin

120 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 11 more places -- 86.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 147 BPM
DAA DAA · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 36, 44, 70, 78 and 104.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 2 sections: 111 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-35.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Daa Daa?

147 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 Daa Daa hard to play on drums?

52 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?

120 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Daa Daa?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 36, 44, 70, 78 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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