No Necesitamos Banderas · Los Prisioneros

179 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-63 and 67, and 17 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NO NECESITAMOS BANDERAS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 123, 124, 158, 165 and 166.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 123-124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 158 · LANDS ON BAR 159
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 165-166 · LANDS ON BAR 167 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 6 sections: 165 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-122.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Necesitamos Banderas?

135 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 No Necesitamos Banderas hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 No Necesitamos Banderas?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 123, 124, 158, 165 and 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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