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Arriba La L · ladrones

EXERCISE 11 OF 65
2-bar fill at bar 20
50 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
PART X
PART Z
PART B
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART Z
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAVZBO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arriba La L on drums

141 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-33, ride through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49, 86-88 and 123-125, and 2 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86               87
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--xx-x--x--x--x|x-x--x--x--x--x-|
Arriba La L -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 24, 25, 31, 32 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-39 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Arriba La L?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Arriba La L hard to play on drums?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Arriba La L?

15 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 24, 25, 31, 32 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED