La Bossa Nova · 36 15 Usul

42 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 2:33 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-21 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LA BOSSA NOVA · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 2 sections: 21 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Bossa Nova?

130 BPM, in 8/4, 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 La Bossa Nova hard to play on drums?

34 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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