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EXERCISE 23 OF 33
Join Part C to Chorus 4 (bars 73-75)
122 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDKCHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-62, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-------|
T2 |----------------|----------xxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Ella Estrella by La Gusana Ciega - Oscar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-37 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-114 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-118 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

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