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Na Mala Nde · Richard Bona

Na Mala Nde · Richard Bona
EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Groove G
68 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Na Mala Nde on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-52, silence through bars 53-56, ride through bars 57-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-94.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|
HH |--xx-x-xxxo-xx-x|
SD |--r---------r---|
BD |x---xx----------|
HF |x---------------|
Na Mala Nde -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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