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ácaro · todos mueren en abril

ácaro · todos mueren en abril
EXERCISE 18 OF 59
Join Part O to Part T (bars 21-23)
53 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART T
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ácaro on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-45, silence through bars 46-48, snare through bars 49-57, toms through bars 58-66 and snare through bars 67-70, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-82 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 23-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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