Machistador · M

101 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-61 and 77-101 -- 98.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
MACHISTADOR · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 86 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-61.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Machistador?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Machistador hard to play on drums?

52 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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