Song Of The Wind · Carlos Santana

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-13, 15 and 17, and 21 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
SONG OF THE WIND · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 4 sections: 131 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-133.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song Of The Wind?

94 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 Song Of The Wind hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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