El Lado Oscuro · Jarabe De Palo

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-55, 58-80 and 83-117 -- 95.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
EL LADO OSCURO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 56.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 5 sections: 103 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-55.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesDS1S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Lado Oscuro?

98 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 Lado Oscuro hard to play on drums?

42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lado Oscuro?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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