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Festival de ritmo · Dave Weckl

EXERCISE 26 OF 76
Run AE1 · Part AE (bars 41-45)
45 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
PART K
PART P
PART AE
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Festival de ritmo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, toms through bars 21-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-36, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |----x-------x-------x-----------|
SD |--x---x-x-----x---x---x-x---x-x-|
FT |--------------------------x-----|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x-----|
Festival de ritmo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-46 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE and Part AG -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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