La Bamba · Los Lobos

129 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-128 -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
LA BAMBA · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 65.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 112 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-128.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesCIBS1S10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Bamba?

152 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 La Bamba 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 La Bamba?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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