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La Declaración · El Zar

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesAEFDS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Declaración on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-99, snare through bars 100-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 10 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-56 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-50 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-121 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is La Declaración?

113 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 Declaración hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Declaración?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED