Exagerado · Cazuza

65 bars, 3:37, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 20 more places -- 56.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
EXAGERADO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 8 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars: 51 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-65.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exagerado?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Exagerado hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Exagerado?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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