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Matar A Palos · peeling flesh

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Fill at bar 10 and 17 (a small one)
17 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART U
PART AA
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEAAUAQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Matar A Palos on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-37, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 5 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|
Matar A Palos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- W, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-80 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-46 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Matar A Palos?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Matar A Palos hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Matar A Palos?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED