El Crack · Los Miserables

114 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 157 BPM
EL CRACK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 29 and 61.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 100 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Crack?

157 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 Crack hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Crack?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 21, 29 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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