Contra La Pared · Barricada

52 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 1:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24, 27 and 31-44, and 1 more place -- 77.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CONTRA LA PARED · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 48 and 52.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 2 sections: 42 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-24.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Contra La Pared?

130 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 Contra La Pared 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 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 Contra La Pared?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 48 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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