Dilaw · Maki

99 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 11, and 22 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
DILAW · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 50.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBKIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dilaw?

126 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 Dilaw hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dilaw?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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