El Bufon Azul · Los Bufones

111 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-27 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EL BUFON AZUL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS1S8S10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Bufon Azul?

140 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 Bufon Azul hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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