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El Jinete · Enrique Bunbury

EXERCISE 29 OF 37
Run L1 · Chorus (bars 75-89)
158 / 199 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Jinete on drums

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.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-90, silence through bars 91-143 and snare through bars 144-199.

The beat

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.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
BD |x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---|
El Jinete -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, B, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-74 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-74 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-195 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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