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Corazon Espinado · Santana

EXERCISE 40 OF 44
Play the whole song with the record
133 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 140 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART D
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNDECS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Corazon Espinado on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, toms through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-100, toms through bars 101-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-116, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-69, 71-78 and 103-116, and 1 more place -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 61, 62, 86 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- N, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-40 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Break -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Corazon Espinado?

120 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 Corazon Espinado hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Corazon Espinado?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 61, 62, 86 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED