El Tesoro · Él Mató a un Policía Motorizado

125 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-23 and 39-42, and 6 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
EL TESORO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 62.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills and 31 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART B
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Tesoro?

115 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 Tesoro hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in El Tesoro?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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