El Beso del Payaso · Enjambre

110 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-48 and 84-86, and 1 more place -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
EL BESO DEL PAYASO · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 36, 40, 70 and 5 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGLDAO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Beso del Payaso?

78 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Beso del Payaso hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Beso del Payaso?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 36, 40, 70 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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