A Los Ojos · Los Rodriguez

135 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-21, 32-36 and 52-61, and 4 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
A LOS OJOS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 48, 88 and 120.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 17 sections: 105 keep time, 4 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-47.

CHORUS
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDES1AS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Los Ojos?

140 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 A Los Ojos hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Los Ojos?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 48, 88 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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