BRUJERIA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Consejos Narcos

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-22, 27-34 and 44-63 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 95 BPM
CONSEJOS NARCOS · BARS 19-20

It is played on crash, ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 53 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 54 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 62 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 62, 73, 84 and 95 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Consejos Narcos use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 95 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 50% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 19-22, 27-34 and 44-63. The time is kept on the ride to start with, and it changes 10 times over the song.

Is the beat in Consejos Narcos hard?

53 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED