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El Baile Y El Salon · Cafe Tacuba

El Baile Y El Salon · Cafe Tacuba
EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Groove I -- Part I
58 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIJBC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Baile Y El Salon on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 3-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-26, 29-30 and 33, and 9 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x--x-x--x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |-xxx-xx-x-xx-xxx|
El Baile Y El Salon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 31, 34, 58, 62, 65 and 2 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Baile Y El Salon?

115 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 El Baile Y El Salon hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 El Baile Y El Salon?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 27, 31, 34, 58, 62, 65 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED