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Algo mejor que hacer · El Cuarteto De Nos

EXERCISE 26 OF 36
Fill at bar 114
112 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEHMP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Algo mejor que hacer on drums

131 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-32, toms through bars 33-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 35-41 and 43-49, and 4 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 26, 33, 34, 42, 66 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-28 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-43 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 87-113 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Algo mejor que hacer?

162 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 Algo mejor que hacer hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 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 Algo mejor que hacer?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 26, 33, 34, 42, 66 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED