El Invisible · Gandhi

143 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 113-143 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
EL INVISIBLE · BARS 113-114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 42, 66, 74, 86, 103 and 3 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 107 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-143.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART C
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEUICS8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Invisible?

128 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 Invisible hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Invisible?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 42, 66, 74, 86, 103 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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