CAFÉ TACVBA · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Las Flores

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 41-47 and 49-64, and 1 more place -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 205 BPM
LAS FLORES · BAR 18

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 36 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 154 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 154, 179 and 205 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Las Flores use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 205 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 48.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-32, 41-47, 49-64 and 89-96. The time is kept on the snare to start with, and it changes 5 times over the song.

Is the beat in Las Flores hard?

25 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED