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La Poderosa Muerte · Los Jaivas

EXERCISE 2 OF 89
Groove T -- Part T
39 / 233 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART G
PART Q
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART T
PART AV
PART BD
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVTBPAVG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Poderosa Muerte on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
11:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-60, toms through bars 61-62, ride through bars 63-64, toms through bars 65-66 and ride through bars 67-92, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    195
    1.......2.......3.......
SD |x-x---x-----x-x---x-----|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |----x---x-------x---x---|
La Poderosa Muerte -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- BP -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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