sraka paka · dupa ptaka

205 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-11, and 15 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
SRAKA PAKA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 25, 49, 50 and 18 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 13 sections: 103 keep time, 24 are fills, 61 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 181-195.

PART E
PART L
PART K
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AC
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesWLKBAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sraka paka?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is sraka paka hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in sraka paka?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 25, 49, 50 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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