La Poderosa Muerte · Los Jaivas

233 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 67 BPM, 11:09 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
11:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 194-196 and 198-233 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 67 BPM
LA PODEROSA MUERTE · BAR 195
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 47 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BARS 11-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 16 sections: 149 keep time, 54 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 198-233.

PART G
PART Q
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AV
PART BD
PART T
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVTBPAVG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Poderosa Muerte?

67 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is La Poderosa Muerte hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 11:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Poderosa Muerte?

23 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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