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Boss Fight · El Gregio

Boss Fight · El Gregio
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDACIQW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boss Fight on drums

87 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
86/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-14, ride through bars 15-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and snare through bars 39-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 10-12 and 32, and 4 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Boss Fight?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boss Fight hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Boss Fight?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 13, 14 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED