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The drum beat in Para No Verte Más

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 18-24, and 8 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 198 BPM
PARA NO VERTE MÁS · BAR 2

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the speed of the hand keeping time.

The whole song is 54 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 149 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 149, 173 and 198 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Para No Verte Más use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 198 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 56.5% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 2-7, 10-15, 18-24 and 41-48, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the kick and crashes to start with, and it changes 9 times over the song.

Is the beat in Para No Verte Más hard?

43 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED