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Dulce Soledad · Enjambre

EXERCISE 16 OF 31
Groove H -- Part H
103 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBHMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dulce Soledad on drums

146 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-97, ride through bars 98-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-129, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-xxx-xxo-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Dulce Soledad -- 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 1, 9, 33, 41, 97, 129 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-73 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-85 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-137 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dulce Soledad?

165 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 Dulce Soledad hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dulce Soledad?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 9, 33, 41, 97, 129 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED