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La Bolsa · La Bersuit Vergarabat

La Bolsa · La Bersuit Vergarabat
EXERCISE 27 OF 30
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 129-131)
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Bolsa on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-145.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |x-xxx-xxxx-xx-xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
La Bolsa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-86 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 97-103 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-134 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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