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La Estrategia Perdida · Panda (Pxndx)

EXERCISE 18 OF 33
Join Part I to Chorus 2 (bars 62-64)
117 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCGIN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Estrategia Perdida on drums

134 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, silence through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-40, silence through bars 41-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-51, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 39 and 47, and 3 more places -- 32% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
La Estrategia Perdida -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 63, 71 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-51 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-87 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-98 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is La Estrategia Perdida?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is La Estrategia Perdida hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Estrategia Perdida?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 63, 71 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED