Lago en el Cielo · Gustavo Cerati

164 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-11, and 28 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LAGO EN EL CIELO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 14 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 4 sections: 140 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-35.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lago en el Cielo?

128 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 Lago en el Cielo hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Lago en el Cielo?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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