Dai Dai · Shakira, Burna Boy

102 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 33-35 and 39-44, and 6 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
DAI DAI · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 18 sections: 63 keep time and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-102.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEAMFL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dai Dai?

116 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 Dai Dai hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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