PANTEÓN ROCOCÓ · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in La Carencia

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 25-39 and 49-63 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 188 BPM
LA CARENCIA · BAR 9

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 66 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is how many notes a second it asks for.

The whole song is 73 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

A part this hard is not learned by playing it slowly and hoping. The room opens it on its simplest reduction -- the timekeeper alone, at 122 BPM -- and adds the notes back over 4 rungs, each with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 122, 144, 166 and 188 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does La Carencia use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 188 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 57.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 9-14, 25-39 and 49-63. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 2 times over the song.

Is the beat in La Carencia hard?

66 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED