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El Último Tema · Enjambre

EXERCISE 11 OF 47
5-bar fill at bar 72
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0 / 47 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART G
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCKIGJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Último Tema on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-70, snare through bars 71-72, hi-hat through bars 73-74, snare through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 85-87, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
El Último Tema -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 18, 19, 29, 45, 47 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-67 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-77 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 26-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-96 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-56 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Último Tema?

126 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 Último Tema 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Último Tema?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 18, 19, 29, 45, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED