El Caminos In The West · Grandaddy

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 15 and 17-18, and 6 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EL CAMINOS IN THE WEST · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 24, 25, 30, 38, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 64 keep time, 12 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART G
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGEHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Caminos In The West?

120 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 Caminos In The West hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in El Caminos In The West?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 24, 25, 30, 38, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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