La Bamba · Ritchie Valens

79 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-18, 31-57 and 59-60 -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LA BAMBA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-57.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFGS1Fill 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?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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