Dakota · Stereophonics

160 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 14 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
DAKOTA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 23 sections: 120 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dakota?

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 Dakota hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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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