La Grasa de las Capitales · Serú Girán, Carlos Alberto García Moreno

147 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26-30 and 42, and 4 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LA GRASA DE LAS CAPITALES · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 21 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 20 sections: 67 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
16 groovesGXS1BAZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Grasa de las Capitales?

110 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 Grasa de las Capitales hard to play on drums?

55 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Grasa de las Capitales?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 31, 32, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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