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

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Join Part B to Part F (bars 32-34)
126 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART F
PART B
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesDBFJE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre on drums

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

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-93, ride through bars 94-97, hi-hat through bars 98-129 and snare through bars 130-141, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
La Dicha no es una Cosa Alegre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-97 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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