cuento · Ximena Sariñana

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-15, 19-36 and 40-63, and 1 more place -- 68.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 83 BPM
CUENTO · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 2 sections: 87 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-72.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is cuento?

83 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 cuento hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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