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Barranca abajo · El Cuarteto De Nos

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART I
CHORUS 6
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesDFIHC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Barranca abajo on drums

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

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-122 and snare through bars 123-126.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-63 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 5 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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