Caidos Del Nido · Arcana

188 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-46, 48-54 and 108-114, and 3 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
CAIDOS DEL NIDO · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 39, 47, 55, 59 and 17 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 19 sections: 140 keep time, 23 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-78.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMOFHK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caidos Del Nido?

142 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 Caidos Del Nido hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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 Caidos Del Nido?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 39, 47, 55, 59 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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