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Cuando suba la marea · Amaral

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove E -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cuando suba la marea on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-92 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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