Cuentame · Pedro Suarez Vertiz

167 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 35-42 and 59-82, and 5 more places -- 59.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 167 BPM
CUENTAME · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 57, 58, 89, 90, 102, 117 and 1 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 12 sections: 140 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-165.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDJS2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cuentame?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cuentame hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cuentame?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 57, 58, 89, 90, 102, 117 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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