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El Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos · Anco

EXERCISE 20 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
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PART A
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos on drums

112 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10 and snare through bars 11-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-35, 57-70 and 73-86, and 1 more place -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
El Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-104 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is El Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is El Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cielo No Esta Tan Lejos?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 36.

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