Nena · Sexy Zebras

109 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-28, 41-55 and 57, and 3 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
NENA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 66, 67, 68 and 108.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-28.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
PART C
PART C
5 groovesDCGS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nena?

128 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 Nena hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nena?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 66, 67, 68 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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