← SONGS

EL DIA DE MI SUERTE · Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe

EL DIA DE MI SUERTE · Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe
EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus 4
0 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
11 groovesBCEDS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play EL DIA DE MI SUERTE on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-33, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
EL DIA DE MI SUERTE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-58 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-70 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-106 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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