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Caida Libre · Experimentando Recuerdos

EXERCISE 23 OF 38
Groove Q -- Part Q
72 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesHDS11QN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caida Libre on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-22 and ride through bars 23-24, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 31-32 and 36-37, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Caida Libre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- M, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Caida Libre?

140 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 Caida Libre hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Caida Libre?

6 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED