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Oye Como Va · Santana

EXERCISE 6 OF 20
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
110 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Oye Como Va on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom and mid tom.

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
18/100

silence through bars 1-3 and toms through bars 4-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-16 and 21-28, and 10 more places -- 80.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T2 |x---x---x---x---|
Oye Como Va -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 29, 30, 38, 67, 68 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-107 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Oye Como Va?

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 Oye Como Va hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:28 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, snare, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Oye Como Va?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 29, 30, 38, 67, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED