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cuento · Ximena Sariñana

cuento · Ximena Sariñana
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Outro
0 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cuento on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-36, hi-hat through bars 37-39 and snare through bars 40-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED