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Bésame · Camila

Bésame · Camila
EXERCISE 24 OF 39
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 43-45)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHJES8S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bésame on drums

78 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 2:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, silence through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 46-52, and 3 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Bésame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 15, 20, 24, 26 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bésame?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Bésame hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bésame?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 6, 15, 20, 24, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED