Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar · Misc Covers

125 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 23-25, and 11 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ELLA ESTRELLA BY LA GUSANA CIEGA - OSCAR · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 30, 56, 68 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 13 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKCHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar?

135 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 Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 30, 56, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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