Na Mala Nde · Richard Bona

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-25 and 30-35, and 5 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
NA MALA NDE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-50.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBS1FS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Na Mala Nde?

96 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 Na Mala Nde hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Na Mala Nde?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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