El Triste · José José

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 33-36 and 41-70, and 5 more places -- 57.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
EL TRISTE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 37, 38, 83 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 147-150 · LANDS ON BAR 151 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 9 sections: 118 keep time, 13 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-122.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Triste?

110 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?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Triste?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 37, 38, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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