Mas Que Nada · Sergio Mendes

121 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 44-47 and 51-57, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MAS QUE NADA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 105.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 15 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-120.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCDGHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mas Que Nada?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mas Que Nada hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Mas Que Nada?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →