Samurai · Djavan

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-101 -- 96% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SAMURAI · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 99 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-101.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Samurai?

85 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 Samurai 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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