Cuando suba la marea · Amaral

123 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-35 and 37-40, and 10 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
CUANDO SUBA LA MAREA · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 41, 60, 76 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 99 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-22.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesENBIH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cuando suba la marea?

115 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 Cuando suba la marea hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cuando suba la marea?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 41, 60, 76 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Amaral drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →