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Algo Más · La Quinta Estacion

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove D -- Part D
60 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
VERSE
PART I
VERSE 2
OUTRO
6 groovesFBICA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Algo Más on drums

79 bars, 4:13, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-73 and ride through bars 74-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 5 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--------|
HF |----x-------x---|
Algo Más -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 65 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-32 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-79 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Algo Más?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Algo Más hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Algo Más?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 65 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED