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El Invisible · Gandhi

El Invisible · Gandhi
EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove U -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Invisible on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-66, ride through bars 67-74, hi-hat through bars 75-87, silence through bars 88-104 and ride through bars 105-143.

The beat

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.

    113              114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|------x-x-------|
El Invisible -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-87 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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