Porque Es Tan Cruel El Amor · Ricardo Arjona

157 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
0/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 34-43 and 45-54, and 9 more places -- 94.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PORQUE ES TAN CRUEL EL AMOR · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 14 sections: 106 keep time and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-157.

BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
8 groovesBS3S7S11S1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Porque Es Tan Cruel El Amor?

130 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 Porque Es Tan Cruel El Amor hard to play on drums?

0 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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