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Aquela · Raimundos

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aquela on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-51, ride through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 24-38 and 40-51, and 3 more places -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aquela?

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 Aquela hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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