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Dai Dai · Shakira, Burna Boy

Dai Dai · Shakira, Burna Boy
EXERCISE 9 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
51 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dai Dai on drums

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

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
22/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28 and silence through bars 29-32, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dai Dai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part S3 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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