Hijos De La Tierra · Los Jaivas

138 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 38 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
HIJOS DE LA TIERRA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 46, 50, 60, 68 and 8 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 10 sections: 109 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-102.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesJUQCI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hijos De La Tierra?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hijos De La Tierra hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hijos De La Tierra?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 26, 46, 50, 60, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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