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El Pastor · Delta Sleep

EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove Y -- Part Y
41 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
PART A
PART D
PART F
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesPDFYAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Pastor on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-93, ride through bars 94-104, hi-hat through bars 105-109 and ride through bars 110-117, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33 and 58-60, and 3 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxoxxxoxxo-xxo-|
SD |---x---x----x---|
BD |x----x--x-x-----|
El Pastor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 27, 32, 34 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-33 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-61 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-81 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Pastor?

141 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 Pastor hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pastor?

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 27, 32, 34 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED