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Lago en el Cielo · Gustavo Cerati

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lago en el Cielo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100

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 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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--gx-----|
Lago en el Cielo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 85-130 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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