Enemigo obsceno, aliado hostil · Álex

165 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-128, 131-132 and 135-136, and 4 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
ENEMIGO OBSCENO, ALIADO HOSTIL · BAR 128
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 73 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 62-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 71-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 92-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 23 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 79 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-152.

CHORUS
PART AD
PART AG
PART AD
PART AU
OUTRO
8 groovesCADAUZAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enemigo obsceno, aliado hostil?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Enemigo obsceno, aliado hostil hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Enemigo obsceno, aliado hostil?

7 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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