Fumar el amor · Amén

122 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 70-71 and 73, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FUMAR EL AMOR · BAR 80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-105.

PART D
PART O
CHORUS
PART AB
OUTRO
7 groovesQABODS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fumar el amor?

140 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 Fumar el amor hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fumar el amor?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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