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El Viento A Favor · Enrique Bunbury

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Viento A Favor on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
38/100

ride through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-82.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----x-x-----x-x-|
SD |----r-r-----r-r-|
BD |x-x-------------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
El Viento A Favor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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