La Hora Del Carnaval · Barricada

155 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-53, 72-76 and 78-85 -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LA HORA DEL CARNAVAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 119 and 127.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 8 sections: 134 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-53.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGCFS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Hora Del Carnaval?

160 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 Hora Del Carnaval hard to play on drums?

45 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in La Hora Del Carnaval?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 111, 119 and 127.

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