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La Bamba. · Los Lobos

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
Fill at bar 41 (a small one)
84 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Bamba. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5 and ride through bars 6-88.

The beat

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.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|x-x---x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-----------|----x-----------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|------x-x-------|
La Bamba. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED