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Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo · Uluh

EXERCISE 15 OF 52
Groove J
50 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART V
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGVTAAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo on drums

96 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-31 and toms through bars 32-34, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 39-43, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-|----x-----x-----x-----x-----x---|
Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 13, 17, 25, 26 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 14-27 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-35 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo?

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

Is Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gracias Y Alaben - Posible No soy yo?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 9, 13, 17, 25, 26 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED