HACER EL AMOR · Rata

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 22-24 and 42, and 8 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 81 BPM
HACER EL AMOR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 61 and 65.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 63 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-37.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HACER EL AMOR?

81 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 HACER EL AMOR hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 HACER EL AMOR?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41, 61 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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