Donkey Kong Melody · Nintendo

307 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 9:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
9:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-199 -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DONKEY KONG MELODY · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 60, 72, 73, 226, 230 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 226 · LANDS ON BAR 227

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

307 bars across 20 sections: 219 keep time, 13 are fills, 31 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-27.

PART C
CHORUS
PART R
PART R
12 groovesLRCTM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Donkey Kong Melody?

130 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 Donkey Kong Melody hard to play on drums?

51 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

307 bars, about 9:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Donkey Kong Melody?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 35, 60, 72, 73, 226, 230 and 7 more.

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