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Ella Estrella · La Gusana Ciega

Ella Estrella · La Gusana Ciega
EXERCISE 23 OF 48
Join Verse to Part I (bars 59-61)
92 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, PART I
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
VERSE
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCTBQI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ella Estrella on drums

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

56 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
56/100

toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, toms through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-36, toms through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 20 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ella Estrella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 56, 59, 62, 64, 66 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-36 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ella Estrella?

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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 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 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Ella Estrella?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 36, 56, 59, 62, 64, 66 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED