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El Guardián de la Luz · Rata Blanca

EXERCISE 10 OF 89
Fill at bar 12 (a small one)
126 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART I
PART M
PART I
PART M
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGIMYA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Guardián de la Luz on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-54 and ride through bars 55-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 71-73 and 139-147, and 7 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
El Guardián de la Luz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-25 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 18-49 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Guardián de la Luz?

143 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?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Guardián de la Luz?

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED