Manhã De Carnaval · Luiz Bonfá

36 bars, 2:18, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
36
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 16-18 and 23-26, and 1 more place -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 62 BPM
MANHÃ DE CARNAVAL · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 36
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

36 bars across 3 sections: 29 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-26.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manhã De Carnaval?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Manhã De Carnaval hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

36 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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.

How many fills are in Manhã De Carnaval?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 36 BARS ANALYSED
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