LOS PRISIONEROS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Porque No Se Van

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-26, 36-51 and 74-80, and 2 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 151 BPM
PORQUE NO SE VAN · BAR 12

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 19 out of 100 -- straightforward -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 51 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 113 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 113, 132 and 151 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Porque No Se Van use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 151 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 44.6% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 10-26, 36-51, 74-80 and 82-88, and 1 more place. The time is kept on the toms to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Porque No Se Van hard?

19 out of 100 on its own -- straightforward. The song as a whole is 51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED