La Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre · Patricio Rey y Sus Redonditos De Ricota

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 17, and 20 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
LA DICHA NO ES UNA COSA ALEGRE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 43, 64, 74, 95 and 116.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 18 sections: 105 keep time, 6 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-129.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesDBFJE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre?

102 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 Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 22, 43, 64, 74, 95 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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