El Bajon · Brujeria

40 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 1:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 9-12 and 25-28 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
EL BAJON · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 18.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 6 sections: 21 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesACS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Bajon?

105 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bajon hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in El Bajon?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 18.

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