Ojos Marrones · Lasso y Yatra

106 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-27, 29-35 and 37-47, and 7 more places -- 88.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
OJOS MARRONES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 48, 64, 72, 98 and 99.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 88 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S4
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesAS4S6S7S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ojos Marrones?

120 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 Ojos Marrones hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Ojos Marrones?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 48, 64, 72, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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