Cheques · Luis Alberto Spinetta

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 21-27 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CHEQUES · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cheques?

90 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 Cheques hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cheques?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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