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La Chata · Amén

EXERCISE 15 OF 24
Fill at bar 44
49 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGBKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Chata on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23-27 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
La Chata -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 40 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-41 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is La Chata?

76 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 Chata hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 Chata?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 40 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED