Waka Waka (This time for Africa) · Shakira

106 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 23-25 and 28-29, and 5 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
WAKA WAKA (THIS TIME FOR AFRICA) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 7 sections: 98 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-69.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waka Waka (This time for Africa)?

127 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 Waka Waka (This time for Africa) hard to play on drums?

36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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