Mato Pato · Calmera

123 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-11, 26-27 and 41, and 5 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MATO PATO · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 21, 25 and 31 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 37 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-75.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART R
CHORUS 5
9 groovesELGRS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mato Pato?

145 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 Mato Pato hard to play on drums?

61 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Mato Pato?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 21, 25 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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