El Jinete · Enrique Bunbury

199 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56-58 and 60-62, and 31 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
EL JINETE · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 33, 49, 53, 72, 73 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 17 are fills, 39 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

PART B
PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART S7
PART K
OUTRO
6 groovesLBS7KD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Jinete?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Jinete hard to play on drums?

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Jinete?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 29, 33, 49, 53, 72, 73 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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