Rivers Of Babylon · Boney M.

123 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-122 -- 99.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
RIVERS OF BABYLON · BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-122.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rivers Of Babylon?

115 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 Rivers Of Babylon hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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