Minutos · Ricardo Arjona

143 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 2:57 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 4 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MINUTOS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 65 and 124.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 3 are fills, 10 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-118.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGS2S7S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minutos?

145 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Minutos hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Minutos?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 52, 65 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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