Explosivo · Tenacious D

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33 and 45-62 -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EXPLOSIVO · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 8.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-63.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFEHS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Explosivo?

100 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 Explosivo hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 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 Explosivo?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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