Subtle part in "Kokomo" by "The Beach Boys"

Factual Questions
1

OK, this has been annoying me ever since this song first came out, and subsequently all of my friends when I ask them about it. For anyone who has the song, (or if you don’t, download the first 8 seconds of it, that’s all you need) you will notice the song begins with a guy beating away on his drum set with a few other minor sounds as well.

NOW…

Listen VERY carefully to the music JUST BEFORE the guy says the first word in the song “Aruba”.

You will here a distinct noise which sounds something like errrr… hitting a wooden spoon on a metal rubbish bin. (OR SOMETHING like that.) You only here here it for the first time JUST before the guy says “Aruba” and you then here it twice more.

WHAT I CAN’T FIGURE OUT IS…

The initial time you here this sound, is he hitting the instrument once… or twice very quickly?

I know most of you right now are thinking… ‘OH MY GOD… you SERIOUSLY need a life to want to know something like that’.

But being a person who has recently taken up drums, this has really been bothering me lately even more so.

SO… insults aside, can anyone give me the low down?

2

It’s either that or bongos. My money is on the steel drum, since this song is supposed to have a “Caribbean” vibe.

Actually, now that I’ve listened to it a dozen or so more times, I’m convinced it’s bongos.

So there you have it.

3

Ahh… ahem… that wasn’t my question.

4

If I remember the video correctly, they had **both[/] a steel drum and bongo’s. They’re off in the background behind the regulars.

I swear I remember this but I can’t be 100% sure.

Chris

5

Bad bolding on my part. Don’t know what’s happening lately.

I’ve spent the last half hour trying to get the sheet music for that song. No luck, unless I feel like paying money and I don’t.

Can’t even get the video on-line without a fee.

Can say that they used both the steel drum and bongo’s for the song.

I know it doesn’t answer your question, but, I too misread the O.P…

6

After listening to the mp3 of it several times (actually, it only took once, a dozen more just to make sure) I could definately hear the instrument twice.

7

I’m with bj…

If I understand your question correctly, CnoteChris, you’re wondering it it’s:

da-da-da

or

da-pause-da

I only hear 2 distinct beats…