CUARTO PARA LAS DOS · LIRAN ROLL

66 bars, 3:28, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 14-16 and 19-20, and 11 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
CUARTO PARA LAS DOS · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 25, 41 and 66.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 50 keep time, 4 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-65.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is CUARTO PARA LAS DOS?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is CUARTO PARA LAS DOS hard to play on drums?

46 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in CUARTO PARA LAS DOS?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 25, 41 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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