VIEJAS LOCAS · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in ¿Qué Vas A Hacer Tan Sola Hoy?

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 27 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 124 BPM
¿QUÉ VAS A HACER TAN SOLA HOY? · BAR 37

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 45 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 58 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 93 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. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. 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.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 93, 109 and 124 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 ¿Qué Vas A Hacer Tan Sola Hoy? use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 124 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 27% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 35, 37, 39 and 41, and 26 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in ¿Qué Vas A Hacer Tan Sola Hoy? hard?

45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 58 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 · 126 BARS ANALYSED