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Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana · Patricio Rey Y Sus Redonditos De Ricota

Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana · Patricio Rey Y Sus Redonditos De Ricota
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EXERCISE 25 OF 37
Join Part B to Chorus 5 (bars 59-61)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 5
PART B
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART B
6 groovesGBEXS20+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-53 and ride through bars 54-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 22-24 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14                                               15
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|---------x--------------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----x-----------------------|x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|
HF |------------------------------------------------|------------------x-----------------------------|
Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 52, 57 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-53 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-83 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 80-101 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Aquella Solitaria Vaca Cubana?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 52, 57 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED