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Enemigo · Enjambre

EXERCISE 4 OF 34
Groove L -- Outro 2
34 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART N
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLCIN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Enemigo on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, ride through bars 29-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-76 and silence through bars 77-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 57-59, and 3 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 19, 20, 28, 33, 34 and 13 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-21 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-76 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Enemigo?

112 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 Enemigo hard to play on drums?

55 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Enemigo?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 19, 20, 28, 33, 34 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED