Sponge Cola · Kay Tagal Kitang Hinintay

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 20 and 28, and 5 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SPONGE COLA · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 26, 27, 29, 34 and 10 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 39 keep time, 16 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDJBUQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sponge Cola?

86 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 Sponge Cola hard to play on drums?

50 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?

72 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sponge Cola?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 25, 26, 27, 29, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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