El Triste · José José

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

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 23-34 and 41, and 12 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
EL TRISTE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 35, 36, 40 and 37 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 45 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-34.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART AE
5 groovesCBGAES1Fill 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?

51 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 35, 36, 40 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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