Accidente · Las Ligas Menores

70 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 12 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ACCIDENTE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 18, 35 and 36.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-34.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Accidente?

112 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 Accidente hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Accidente?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 18, 35 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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