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Levanta polleras · Las Pelotas

EXERCISE 5 OF 17
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Levanta polleras on drums

115 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
34/100

toms through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-48, toms through bars 49-66, snare through bars 67-72, toms through bars 73-87 and snare through bars 88-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 18 and 31-47, and 4 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |--------x-x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Levanta polleras -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 56 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-58 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Levanta polleras?

160 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 Levanta polleras hard to play on drums?

34 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?

115 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Levanta polleras?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 48, 56 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED