O Descobridor dos Sete Mares · Tim Maia

150 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 46 more places -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
O DESCOBRIDOR DOS SETE MARES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 56, 88, 96, 124 and 148.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars: 142 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-47.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is O Descobridor dos Sete Mares?

135 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 O Descobridor dos Sete Mares hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:27 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?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in O Descobridor dos Sete Mares?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 56, 88, 96, 124 and 148.

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