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Miéntele · Los Bunkers

EXERCISE 6 OF 19
Groove C -- Part C
81 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Miéntele on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-53, snare through bars 54-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 18-60 and 62-71, and 4 more places -- 80.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x--x-x--x---|
Miéntele -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 17, 61, 72, 73, 81 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Miéntele?

107 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 Miéntele 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Miéntele?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 17, 61, 72, 73, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED