No diggity · Blackstreet

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 16-22 and 24-27, and 10 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
NO DIGGITY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 3 sections: 99 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-100.

PART A
OUTRO
3 groovesCAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No diggity?

90 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 No diggity hard to play on drums?

36 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 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.

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