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EL DJ0NTOS · NDKH

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove BC -- Outro 2
23 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AJ
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJBCSATAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play EL DJ0NTOS on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and snare through bars 49-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 29 and 31, and 6 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                                               22
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
EL DJ0NTOS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BC, Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 15-79 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part X and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-85 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is EL DJ0NTOS?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 DJ0NTOS hard to play on drums?

62 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 DJ0NTOS?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED