Tango · Damiano David

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-28 and 30-35, and 2 more places -- 74.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
TANGO · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-35.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBS1HS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tango?

92 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 Tango hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tango?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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