Pedro Navaja · Ruben Blades

219 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 5:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 5-6 and 8, and 18 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
PEDRO NAVAJA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 108, 110, 160, 161 and 1 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 18 sections: 185 keep time, 7 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-57.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART M
PART O
PART L
PART I
OUTRO
11 groovesBILMO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pedro Navaja?

168 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 Pedro Navaja hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Pedro Navaja?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 108, 110, 160, 161 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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