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Aún Queda Un Sitio · Barricada

EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Join Part H to Part K (bars 47-49)
105 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGFHBK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aún Queda Un Sitio on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
40/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-46, toms through bars 47-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-30, 32-34 and 36-37, and 11 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Aún Queda Un Sitio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 16 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-34 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-76 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-82 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 79-115 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Aún Queda Un Sitio?

104 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 Queda Un Sitio hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Aún Queda Un Sitio?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 16 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED