A Estos Hombres Tristes · Almendra

228 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 41 and 43, and 12 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
A ESTOS HOMBRES TRISTES · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 27, 45, 72, 73 and 98.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 25 sections: 132 keep time, 12 are fills, 31 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-180.

PART A
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART AA
PART V
PART Y
BREAK 2
17 groovesMVYAS25+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Estos Hombres Tristes?

175 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 A Estos Hombres Tristes 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Estos Hombres Tristes?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 23, 27, 45, 72, 73 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
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