Hey Gringo · Kaleo

129 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 28-59 and 62-76, and 7 more places -- 76.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
HEY GRINGO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 118 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-77.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEDGK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Gringo?

110 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 Hey Gringo hard to play on drums?

45 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?

129 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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.

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