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La Negra Tomasa · Caifanes

EXERCISE 19 OF 22
Groove V
126 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLPS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Negra Tomasa on drums

147 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-52, toms through bars 53-56, ride through bars 57-72 and toms through bars 73-95, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-------o---|
SD |----x-x---------|
T1 |------------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
La Negra Tomasa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-94 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is La Negra Tomasa?

165 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 Negra Tomasa hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 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 Negra Tomasa?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED