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El Cazador · Arcadia Libre

El Cazador · Arcadia Libre
EXERCISE 4 OF 80
Groove AC -- Outro
28 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y, PART AF, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
PART Y
PART AF
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Cazador on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-9, silence through bars 10-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-14 and snare through bars 15-32, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17                                                               18
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x-------x---x---x-----------------------x-x-x-x-x-------|x-x-x-x-x-----------------------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------|
El Cazador -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part S5 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-22 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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