El Gran Filosofo · Sin Silencio

47 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
47
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 17 and 19, and 5 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
EL GRAN FILOSOFO · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 22, 24, 28, 30 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

47 bars: 36 keep time, 7 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-21.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Gran Filosofo?

120 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 Gran Filosofo hard to play on drums?

53 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?

47 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Gran Filosofo?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 6, 22, 24, 28, 30 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 47 BARS ANALYSED
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