Amores Lejanos · Hombres G, Enanitos Verdes

10 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
10
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 10 -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AMORES LEJANOS · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 9.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars across 2 sections: 8 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amores Lejanos?

120 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 Amores Lejanos hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

10 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Amores Lejanos?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 9.

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