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The drum beat in Durmiendo Con La Luna

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 37, and 8 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 100 BPM
DURMIENDO CON LA LUNA · BAR 37

It is played on ride, hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 45 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 75 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 75, 88 and 100 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Durmiendo Con La Luna use?

A one-bar groove on ride, hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 100 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 36.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 14-20, 22-28, 37 and 39, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Durmiendo Con La Luna hard?

19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED