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Las Flores · Café Tacvba

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-16)
83 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Las Flores on drums

97 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

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

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, snare through bars 65-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-97.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 41-92 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Las Flores?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Las Flores hard to play on drums?

36 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Las Flores?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED