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EXERCISE 27 OF 47
Groove N (a two-bar phrase)
234 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBCHDL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Como Relámpago en la Oscuridad on drums

250 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-164, toms through bars 165-168, ride through bars 169-182, snare through bars 183-184, hi-hat through bars 185-241 and toms through bars 242-245, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 22 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Como Relámpago en la Oscuridad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 83, 165, 166, 167, 168, 175 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-84 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-131 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-162 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Como Relámpago en la Oscuridad?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Como Relámpago en la Oscuridad hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Como Relámpago en la Oscuridad?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 83, 165, 166, 167, 168, 175 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED