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Por Que Desapareceré · el dou

EXERCISE 1 OF 124
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Por Que Desapareceré on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
8:01
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-27, snare through bars 28-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-x---x---x-x---|
Por Que Desapareceré -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-107 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AF -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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