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El Hijo de Hernández · El Cuarteto De Nos

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S7
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFS7JS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Hijo de Hernández on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-75, silence through bars 76-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-19, and 14 more places -- 68% 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-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
El Hijo de Hernández -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 28, 33, 53, 58, 66 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-59 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is El Hijo de Hernández?

113 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 Hijo de Hernández 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in El Hijo de Hernández?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 28, 33, 53, 58, 66 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED