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Migra · Carlos Santana

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART A, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
PART A
PART I
PART E
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAEIK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Migra on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-72, hi-hat through bars 73-96 and toms through bars 97-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 41-44 and 53-56, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |------x-xxx-x---|
FT |x--xx---------x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Migra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-49 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-109 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Migra?

108 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 Migra hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Migra?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED