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Dejando Libre El Amor · Chancho En Piedra

EXERCISE 7 OF 27
Groove G
106 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesCJBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dejando Libre El Amor on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-40, silence through bars 41-43, hi-hat through bars 44-75, snare through bars 76-81, hi-hat through bars 82-103 and snare through bars 104-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 39 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dejando Libre El Amor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 43, 89, 105, 121, 135 and 136.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-44 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 70-85 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dejando Libre El Amor?

120 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 Dejando Libre El Amor hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dejando Libre El Amor?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 43, 89, 105, 121, 135 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED