BARRICADA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in La Hora Del Carnaval

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.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 160 BPM
LA HORA DEL CARNAVAL · BAR 2

It is played on snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 14 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 45 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 120 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

Tempo goes 120, 140 and 160 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does La Hora Del Carnaval use?

A one-bar groove on snare and kick, in 4/4 at 160 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 43.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-53, 72-76 and 78-85. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in La Hora Del Carnaval hard?

14 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED