Como Estais Amigos · Iron Maiden

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-46, 48-61 and 88-94, and 3 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
COMO ESTAIS AMIGOS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 105 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-61.

PART A
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAFBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Como Estais Amigos?

87 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 Como Estais Amigos hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Como Estais Amigos?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 103.

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