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

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-65 and ride through bars 66-100.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r---------------r-------|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED