Loca · Chico Trujillo

150 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

194 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

3:06

DIFFICULTY

47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-77 and snare through bars 78-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-48 and 57-61, and 3 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Bars 99-105 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Bars 109-124 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.