ART AGUILERA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Hay Libertad En La Casa De Dios

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 41-54 and 73-86, and 2 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 148 BPM
HAY LIBERTAD EN LA CASA DE DIOS · BAR 18

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 54 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 111 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 111, 130 and 148 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Hay Libertad En La Casa De Dios use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 148 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 30.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-22, 41-54, 73-86 and 121-126, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in Hay Libertad En La Casa De Dios hard?

34 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED