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LIVING LA VIDA LOCA · Gummy

EXERCISE 10 OF 28
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 16-18)
145 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LIVING LA VIDA LOCA on drums

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, snare through bars 31-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 19 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
LIVING LA VIDA LOCA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 40, 70 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-79 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 111-126 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is LIVING LA VIDA LOCA?

180 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 LIVING LA VIDA LOCA hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in LIVING LA VIDA LOCA?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 40, 70 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED