La Bamba. · Los Lobos

88 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-18, 20-32 and 34-40, and 2 more places -- 88.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LA BAMBA. · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 33, 41 and 65.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 2 sections: 82 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-64.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Bamba.?

150 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?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 La Bamba.?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 33, 41 and 65.

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