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Pedro Navaja · Ruben Blades

Pedro Navaja · Ruben Blades
EXERCISE 29 OF 40
Run O1 · Part O (bars 130-141)
210 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pedro Navaja on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-100, ride through bars 101-104, hi-hat through bars 105-159 and kick and crashes through bars 160-162, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Pedro Navaja -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-109 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 84-98 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 98-133 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-179 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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