Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) · Santana

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 23 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
EUROPA (EARTH'S CRY HEAVEN'S SMILE) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 41, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 67-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 69 keep time and 23 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-66.

PART B
PART D
PART I
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAARBLK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 41, 47 and 17 more.

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