El Círculo de Fuego · Rata Blanca

239 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 19-33 and 35-44, and 6 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 197 BPM
EL CÍRCULO DE FUEGO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 18, 34, 62, 63, 72 and 15 more.

LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 197 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 9 sections: 178 keep time, 21 are fills and 30 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-61.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBMGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Círculo de Fuego?

197 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 Círculo de Fuego hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 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 Círculo de Fuego?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 18, 34, 62, 63, 72 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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