Mi sombra en la pared · Miguel Mateos

199 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 78 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MI SOMBRA EN LA PARED · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 132 and 133.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 132-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 5 sections: 181 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-126.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mi sombra en la pared?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mi sombra en la pared hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Mi sombra en la pared?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 132 and 133.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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