Colas De Rata · Brujeria

42 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:29
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 18-21 and 30-37 -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
COLAS DE RATA · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 26, 29 and 1 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 7 sections: 23 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEGS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colas De Rata?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Colas De Rata hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Colas De Rata?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 25, 26, 29 and 1 more.

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