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A fuego · Extremoduro

EXERCISE 13 OF 45
Groove D -- Part D
181 / 270 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesEGKAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A fuego on drums

270 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52 and snare through bars 53-54, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 21-31 and 45-47, and 26 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
A fuego -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 68, 76, 80 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-259 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-48 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-88 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 133-182 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 179-263 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A fuego?

192 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 fuego hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A fuego?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 32, 36, 68, 76, 80 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED