El sol no regresa · Quinta Estacion

117 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 35-41 and 43-49, and 6 more places -- 58.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
EL SOL NO REGRESA · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 50, 61, 62 and 5 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-33.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesBDS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El sol no regresa?

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 sol no regresa hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 sol no regresa?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 34, 42, 50, 61, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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