Molinos De Viento · Mägo de Oz

145 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 18-24 and 34, and 17 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
MOLINOS DE VIENTO · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 47, 83, 84 and 11 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 83 keep time, 17 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-125.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGWES10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Molinos De Viento?

137 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Molinos De Viento hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Molinos De Viento?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 41, 42, 43, 47, 83, 84 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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