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The drum beat in En totalidad

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-35, 37-47 and 49, and 14 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 115 BPM
EN TOTALIDAD · BAR 32

It is played on ride, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 17 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 38 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 86 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, ride pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 86, 101 and 115 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does En totalidad use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 115 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 34.2% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 31-35, 37-47, 49 and 53, and 13 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 15 times over the song.

Is the beat in En totalidad hard?

17 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED