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The drum beat in Loco (Tu forma de ser) Tab

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 45-56 and 65-72, and 1 more place -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 110 BPM
LOCO (TU FORMA DE SER) TAB · BAR 17

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 35 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 43 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 83 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. 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.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 83, 96 and 110 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 Loco (Tu forma de ser) Tab use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 110 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 17-28, 45-56, 65-72 and 89-96. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in Loco (Tu forma de ser) Tab hard?

35 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 43 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 · 145 BARS ANALYSED