La Ola · NEW WINE

185 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-62, 64-70 and 106-112, and 2 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
LA OLA · BARS 56-57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 89, 113, 121 and 6 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 17 sections: 139 keep time, 12 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-25.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART W
16 groovesHCLWD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Ola?

155 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 Ola hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ola?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 89, 113, 121 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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