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I Am Loco · Ill Niño

EXERCISE 28 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
70 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Loco on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-52, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 57-59 and 61-63, and 2 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
I Am Loco -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 32, 52, 56, 60, 68 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-76 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Loco?

87 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 I Am Loco hard to play on drums?

57 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?

77 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am Loco?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 28, 32, 52, 56, 60, 68 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED