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Aún Estás en Mis Sueños · Rata Blanca

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aún Estás en Mis Sueños on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-67, toms through bars 68-69 and ride through bars 70-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 70-76, and 8 more places -- 54.9% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Aún Estás en Mis Sueños -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 19, 23, 24, 32 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- I, A -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 19-41 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-144 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aún Estás en Mis Sueños?

128 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 Aún Estás en Mis Sueños 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high 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 Aún Estás en Mis Sueños?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 19, 23, 24, 32 and 16 more.

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