Despacito · Luis Fonsi Feat Daddy Yankee

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-30, 33-40 and 46-61, and 1 more place -- 75.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DESPACITO · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-40.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesCBS1S3S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Despacito?

90 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 Despacito 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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 · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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