Había una vez · Indio Solari & Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 19 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
HABÍA UNA VEZ · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 18, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 15 sections: 86 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-109.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCHJI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Había una vez?

106 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 Había una vez hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Había una vez?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 18, 20 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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