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El Triste · José José

EXERCISE 25 OF 48
3-bar fill at bar 50
100 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
PART AE
5 groovesCBGAES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Triste on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-35, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x--x--|
BD |x---x-----x-|
El Triste -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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