No Podrás · Cristian Castro

119 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-20, and 22 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
NO PODRÁS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 33, 41, 55, 58 and 8 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 7 sections: 96 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Podrás?

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 No Podrás 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 No Podrás?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 33, 41, 55, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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