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Nada que perder · robe

EXERCISE 22 OF 46
Join Part K to Part D (bars 60-62)
209 / 278 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART D
CHORUS 7
6 groovesFDKS2P+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nada que perder on drums

278 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 5:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-85 and snare through bars 86-87, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 23-29 and 34-47, and 25 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Nada que perder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 33 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-86 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nada que perder?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Nada que perder hard to play on drums?

52 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?

278 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nada que perder?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 17, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED