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A Estos Hombres Tristes · Almendra

EXERCISE 34 OF 61
Run M4 · Chorus 4 (bars 79-108)
115 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Estos Hombres Tristes on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-24, silence through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-45, ride through bars 46-57 and toms through bars 58-62, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T1 |------------x---|
T2 |x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
A Estos Hombres Tristes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- M, V, Y -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-28 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-93 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-99 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-136 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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