Barranca abajo · El Cuarteto De Nos

126 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 13-14 and 23, and 11 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARRANCA ABAJO · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 62, 70, 74 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 20 sections: 89 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART I
CHORUS 6
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesDFIHC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Barranca abajo?

150 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 Barranca abajo hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Barranca abajo?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 62, 70, 74 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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