Lakas Tama · Siakol

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 42-57 and 74-96 -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LAKAS TAMA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 106, 107 and 108.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 96 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-97.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesCDAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lakas Tama?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lakas Tama hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lakas Tama?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 106, 107 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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