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El descarril · Congreso

El descarril · Congreso
EXERCISE 16 OF 63
Join Part B to Part H (bars 32-34)
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PART B
PART H
PART P
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS9BHVP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El descarril on drums

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-27, ride through bars 28-40, hi-hat through bars 41-43 and ride through bars 44-57, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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El descarril -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 65 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-139 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El descarril?

115 BPM, in 3/4, 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 descarril hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 descarril?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 65 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED