La Senda del Tiempo (version estudio) · Celtas Cortos

81 bars, 4:18, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12-15 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
LA SENDA DEL TIEMPO (VERSION ESTUDIO) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La Senda del Tiempo (version estudio)?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Senda del Tiempo (version estudio) 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Senda del Tiempo (version estudio)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 3 more.

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