Granada · Vassendgutane

144 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 43-63 and 72-77, and 2 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GRANADA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 17 sections: 116 keep time, 1 is a fill, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-63.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART H
PART G
7 groovesDGBHE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Granada?

180 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 Granada hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Granada?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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