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Ang Huling El Bimbo · Eraserheads

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART B
PART D
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBFTD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ang Huling El Bimbo on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100

ride through bars 2-11, silence through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, ride through bars 35-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-51, 53-57 and 69-71, and 10 more places -- 36.2% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Ang Huling El Bimbo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 34, 43, 44, 59, 66 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J, F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-76 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-122 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 127-142 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ang Huling El Bimbo?

90 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 Ang Huling El Bimbo hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Ang Huling El Bimbo?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 34, 43, 44, 59, 66 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED