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Noches de Insomnio · Airbag

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Fill at bar 4, 44, 114 and 2 more (a small one)
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BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCIS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Noches de Insomnio on drums

171 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-60, snare through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-112, snare through bars 113-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-164, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-42, 63-91 and 123-131, and 1 more place -- 43.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 44, 114, 132, 166, 168 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-46 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 61-117 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 116-171 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Noches de Insomnio?

197 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 Noches de Insomnio hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Noches de Insomnio?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 44, 114, 132, 166, 168 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED