Mi Fiesta · Bandalos Chinos

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 16-21 and 36-43, and 2 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MI FIESTA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 30, 51, 59, 67 and 105.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-104.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesEAQS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mi Fiesta?

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 Mi Fiesta hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mi Fiesta?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 14, 30, 51, 59, 67 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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