La Bolsa · La Bersuit Vergarabat

145 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 57-69, and 5 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
LA BOLSA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 102, 124, 128 and 132.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 10 sections: 119 keep time, 6 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-123.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFHNDKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Bolsa?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is La Bolsa hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in La Bolsa?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 102, 124, 128 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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