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La Raza Del Sol · Journey

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBITADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Raza Del Sol on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
87/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-25, and 1 more place -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxo-|
SD |----x------x----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
La Raza Del Sol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-70 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is La Raza Del Sol?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is La Raza Del Sol hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Raza Del Sol?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED