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Minutos · Ricardo Arjona

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
PART S5
BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGS2S7S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Minutos on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-84, silence through bars 85-86, kick and crashes through bars 87-88, silence through bars 89-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-143.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------|
Minutos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-124 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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