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Hijo De La Luna · Stravaganzza

Hijo De La Luna · Stravaganzza
EXERCISE 9 OF 35
Run B1 · Part B (bars 11-18)
55 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
10 groovesS18INGB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hijo De La Luna on drums

125 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-41, hi-hat through bars 42-44, silence through bars 45-46 and ride through bars 47-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-28 and 36-39, and 3 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Hijo De La Luna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-23 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hijo De La Luna?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hijo De La Luna hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Hijo De La Luna?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 18, 20, 22, 25, 29 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED