El Cazador · Arcadia Libre

153 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 5 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
EL CAZADOR · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 37, 45, 49, 53, 79 and 5 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 28 sections: 99 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART Y
PART AK
PART AU
PART AY
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
23 groovesEYQACAK+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Cazador?

136 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cazador hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cazador?

11 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 37, 45, 49, 53, 79 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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