por el valle de las sombras · Tierra Santa

158 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 29-35 and 37, and 16 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
POR EL VALLE DE LAS SOMBRAS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 20, 36, 84, 124 and 146.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time, 6 are fills, 47 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-116.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesFPNCB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is por el valle de las sombras?

184 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 por el valle de las sombras hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 por el valle de las sombras?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 19, 20, 36, 84, 124 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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