"Ensenada" · Sublime

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 6 more places -- 79.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
"ENSENADA" · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 3 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 4 sections: 44 keep time, 9 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Ensenada"?

95 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 "Ensenada" hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 "Ensenada"?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Sublime drum parts

EVERY SUBLIME CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →