Azul · Los Buitres

113 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 10 more places -- 80.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 146 BPM
AZUL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 49, 73, 89 and 97.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 4 sections: 99 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Azul?

146 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 Azul 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Azul?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 49, 73, 89 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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