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El Diablo · Mon Laferte

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
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0 / 34 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
5 groovesBDQTIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Diablo on drums

161 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 26-32 and 34-48, and 8 more places -- 50.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 73, 97, 129 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 6-50 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-98 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 127-155 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is El Diablo?

164 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 Diablo hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Diablo?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 33, 49, 73, 97, 129 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED