Flower Dance · Dj Okawari

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-39, 42-49 and 56-94 -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FLOWER DANCE · BAR 18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 4 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-94.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flower Dance?

100 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 Flower Dance hard to play on drums?

33 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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