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El Círculo de Fuego · Rata Blanca

EXERCISE 24 OF 35
Join Chorus 3 to Part M (bars 127-129)
229 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART M
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBMGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Círculo de Fuego on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-45, ride through bars 46-61 and toms through bars 62-63, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
El Círculo de Fuego -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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