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El Final · Rostros Ocultos

El Final · Rostros Ocultos
EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Groove D
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0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFGAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Final on drums

96 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-59, toms through bars 60-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-32 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 75.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 41, 63, 67, 85 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 48-56 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-64 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is El Final?

158 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 Final hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Final?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 41, 63, 67, 85 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED