Fiesta Reggae · Anakreenskyrider

140 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 56-62, and 1 more place -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FIESTA REGGAE · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 55 and 107.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 13 sections: 99 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART S8
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBGAFK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fiesta Reggae?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fiesta Reggae hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Fiesta Reggae?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 55 and 107.

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