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Música para Pastillas · Patricio Rey Y Sus Redonditos De Ricota

EXERCISE 27 OF 40
Run C2 · Part C (bars 88-91)
114 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesFIKBC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Música para Pastillas on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
47/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-67, ride through bars 68-91, hi-hat through bars 92-121 and ride through bars 122-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Música para Pastillas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 45, 67, 105, 113, 119 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-71 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-24 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-53 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-91 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-109 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Música para Pastillas?

118 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 Música para Pastillas hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Música para Pastillas?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 23, 45, 67, 105, 113, 119 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED