EL DIA DE MI SUERTE · Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 34-37 and 46-49, and 4 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
EL DIA DE MI SUERTE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 130 and 131.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 130-131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 28 sections: 92 keep time, 2 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 7
11 groovesBCEDS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is EL DIA DE MI SUERTE?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 DIA DE MI SUERTE hard to play on drums?

51 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in EL DIA DE MI SUERTE?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 130 and 131.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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