Por Que Desapareceré · el dou

246 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 8:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
8:01
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
POR QUE DESAPARECERÉ · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 93 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 20 sections: 109 keep time, 100 are fills, 14 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-88.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AL
PART AI
PART AL
PART BL
OUTRO
15 groovesBALBLAIAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Por Que Desapareceré?

125 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 Por Que Desapareceré hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 8:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Por Que Desapareceré?

31 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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