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Dolores se llamaba lola · Los Suaves

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove D -- Outro
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dolores se llamaba lola on drums

214 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-67, hi-hat through bars 68-145, kick and crashes through bars 146-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-214.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17-19, and 47 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Dolores se llamaba lola -- 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 7, 8, 32, 67, 115, 150 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dolores se llamaba lola?

172 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 Dolores se llamaba lola hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dolores se llamaba lola?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 67, 115, 150 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED