El Viento A Favor · Enrique Bunbury

82 bars, 4:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-39, 41-55 and 81 -- 67.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
EL VIENTO A FAVOR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 72 and 82.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 2 sections: 76 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Viento A Favor?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is El Viento A Favor hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in El Viento A Favor?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 72 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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