El Guardián de la Luz · Rata Blanca ver

216 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-39, 41-47 and 57, and 14 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EL GUARDIÁN DE LA LUZ · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 21 sections: 145 keep time, 35 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-91.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO
10 groovesJGOZAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Guardián de la Luz?

140 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 Guardián de la Luz hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Guardián de la Luz?

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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