Pachuco · Maldita vecindad

157 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30-35 and 46-51, and 6 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
PACHUCO · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 84, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 10 sections: 134 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-139.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEANBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pachuco?

220 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 Pachuco hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pachuco?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 36, 44, 60, 84, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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