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Asuntos Pendientes · AIRBAG

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asuntos Pendientes on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, ride through bars 50-52, hi-hat through bars 53-70 and ride through bars 71-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-23, 25 and 30-41, and 4 more places -- 59.7% 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-x-------|
Asuntos Pendientes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 53, 56, 57, 72 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E, G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-54 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Asuntos Pendientes?

86 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 Asuntos Pendientes hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Asuntos Pendientes?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 53, 56, 57, 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED