Nosi Ba Lasi · Sampaguita

151 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11 and 13-28, and 17 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NOSI BA LASI · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 71, 101, 109, 123 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 8 sections: 129 keep time, 11 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 3
5 groovesCBMS7S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nosi Ba Lasi?

140 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 Nosi Ba Lasi hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:19 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 Nosi Ba Lasi?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 29, 71, 101, 109, 123 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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