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Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma · Extremoduro

EXERCISE 23 OF 27
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 88-90)
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma on drums

105 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-33, ride through bars 34-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, ride through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 42-44 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 65, 69, 73, 81, 89 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-26 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-66 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma hard to play on drums?

71 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?

105 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 65, 69, 73, 81, 89 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED