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por el valle de las sombras · Tierra Santa

EXERCISE 6 OF 46
Groove C -- Part C
94 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play por el valle de las sombras on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37 and ride through bars 38-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
por el valle de las sombras -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- F, P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-96 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-50 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-66 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-83 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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