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Como Los Bueyes · Almafuerte

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFDS12S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Como Los Bueyes on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-13 and 24, and 5 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx--|
Como Los Bueyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 71 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Como Los Bueyes?

113 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 Los Bueyes hard to play on drums?

71 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?

79 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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 Como Los Bueyes?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 71 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED