El Triste · José José

14 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 0:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
EL TRISTE · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars across 3 sections: 4 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-14.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesS2FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Triste?

105 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 Triste hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Triste?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7.

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