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Pachuco · Maldita vecindad

Pachuco · Maldita vecindad
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 43 PASSED · 59 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pachuco on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-52 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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