Mal Bicho · Fabulosos Cadillacs

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 22-30 and 36-41, and 2 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MAL BICHO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 31, 51, 77 and 105.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 18 sections: 75 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
7 groovesBDGHK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mal Bicho?

105 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 Mal Bicho hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Mal Bicho?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 31, 51, 77 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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