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Que Beleza · Tim Maia

EXERCISE 12 OF 30
Run C2 · Part C (bars 37-47)
98 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesDBGCA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Que Beleza on drums

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 39 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Que Beleza?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Que Beleza hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED