Por Piedad · Luzbel

180 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-40, and 14 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
POR PIEDAD · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 33, 71, 72, 73, 114 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 71-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 16 sections: 51 keep time, 7 are fills, 101 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-153.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART X
CHORUS 4
9 groovesLAXUS15+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Por Piedad?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Por Piedad hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Piedad?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 11, 33, 71, 72, 73, 114 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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