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A Perdóname · Nameless 272

EXERCISE 16 OF 78
Join Part D to Part J (bars 14-16)
65 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART J
PART D
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART AF
PART AM
PART AT
PART AY
OUTRO
BREAK 4
15 groovesQBGATAMAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Perdóname on drums

181 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17 and toms through bars 18-25, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-39 and 41-42, and 4 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    150
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
A Perdóname -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 18, 27, 35, 62, 64 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, BG -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-158 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Perdóname?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Perdóname hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Perdóname?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 11, 18, 27, 35, 62, 64 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED