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Puente · Gustavo Cerati

EXERCISE 13 OF 30
Groove I
56 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesABGTS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Puente on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-61, silence through bars 62-65 and snare through bars 66-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---o---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------x---x-x---x-----x---x-|
Puente -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 55, 56, 60 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-75 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Puente?

76 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 Puente hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Puente?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 55, 56, 60 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED