ácaro · todos mueren en abril

102 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 33 and 35, and 9 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ÁCARO · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 36, 40, 49 and 22 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 15 sections: 47 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART C
PART O
PART T
CHORUS
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART S12
OUTRO
13 groovesQCTS12O+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ácaro?

190 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 ácaro hard to play on drums?

63 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 ácaro?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 36, 40, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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