La Primera Vez · Los Tres

124 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8-9 and 12-14, and 11 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
LA PRIMERA VEZ · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 19 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 43-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 61-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 25 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-60.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART Y
9 groovesGCBYD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Primera Vez?

220 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 Primera Vez hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Primera Vez?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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