Do Ya · Electric Light Orchestra

107 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-23, 28-45 and 49-78, and 2 more places -- 79.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DO YA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 4 sections: 101 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-107.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do Ya?

124 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 Do Ya hard to play on drums?

46 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?

107 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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