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Cuentame · Pedro Suarez Vertiz

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDJS2AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cuentame on drums

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

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-58, snare through bars 59-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-77, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-59 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-167 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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