Festival de ritmo · Dave Weckl

149 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15 -- 3.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
FESTIVAL DE RITMO · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, 23 and 41 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 33-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 74 keep time, 47 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-96.

PART K
PART P
PART AK
PART AY
PART BF
PART BO
PART BZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCEDAPBOAY+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Festival de ritmo?

125 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 Festival de ritmo hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Festival de ritmo?

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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