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Pensamientos · Airbag

EXERCISE 17 OF 32
Fill at bar 52 and 76 (a small one)
96 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pensamientos on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-96, ride through bars 97-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15-16 and 18, and 21 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Pensamientos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 32, 44, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-24 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 24-101 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pensamientos?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pensamientos hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pensamientos?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 32, 44, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED