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Explosivo · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFEHS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Explosivo on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-63.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Explosivo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- F, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-27 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-48 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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