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Florecita Rockera · Los Aterciopelados

Florecita Rockera · Los Aterciopelados
EXERCISE 4 OF 22
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
50 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Florecita Rockera on drums

120 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17, 19-21 and 23-24, and 17 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|------x---------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x-xx--|
T1 |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
Florecita Rockera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 34 and 38.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-90 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Florecita Rockera?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Florecita Rockera hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Florecita Rockera?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 18, 22, 34 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED