Kao bang · Indochine

158 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-48, 70-90 and 92, and 3 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
KAO BANG · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 13 sections: 143 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-49.

PART A
VERSE
PART D
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesETHAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kao bang?

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 Kao bang hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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