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El Beso del Payaso · Enjambre

EXERCISE 8 OF 43
Groove A -- Part A
56 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Beso del Payaso on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-35, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------g-----x-----g-----|
BD |x---x---x-x---x-x---x---|
El Beso del Payaso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-51 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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