Sognando La California · Dik Dik

73 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 21-31 and 53-63 -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SOGNANDO LA CALIFORNIA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 72.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 56 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sognando La California?

112 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 Sognando La California hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Sognando La California?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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