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Amargo Adios · El Inspector

Amargo Adios · El Inspector
EXERCISE 29 OF 30
Fill at bar 125 (a small one)
131 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGKEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amargo Adios on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-49, ride through bars 50-61, toms through bars 62-63 and kick and crashes through bars 64-66, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-34 and 36-40, and 9 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Amargo Adios -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 62, 63, 64, 66, 74, 90 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G, K, E -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-28 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-74 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Amargo Adios?

140 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 Amargo Adios hard to play on drums?

39 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Amargo Adios?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 62, 63, 64, 66, 74, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED