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Ella Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver · Soda Stereo

EXERCISE 13 OF 29
Groove J -- Part J
66 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGJLA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ella Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51, snare through bars 52-60, hi-hat through bars 61-86 and snare through bars 87-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 19-20 and 23-24, and 4 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----------------|--------------o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|x-x----xx-x----x|
HF |--x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x---|
Ella Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 33, 39, 60, 66 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-40 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-78 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ella Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver?

82 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 Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver hard to play on drums?

39 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Uso Mi Cabeza Como Un Revolver?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 33, 39, 60, 66 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED