LOS TRES · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Quien Es La Que Viene Alli

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 64-68 and 70-77, and 3 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 177 BPM
QUIEN ES LA QUE VIENE ALLI · BAR 22

It is played on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 67 out of 100 -- demanding -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 60 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 115 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 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, ride 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 115, 136, 156 and 177 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 Quien Es La Que Viene Alli use?

A one-bar groove on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot, in 4/4 at 177 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 26.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 22-28, 64-68, 70-77 and 92, and 2 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 7 times over the song.

Is the beat in Quien Es La Que Viene Alli hard?

67 out of 100 on its own -- demanding. The song as a whole is 60 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 · 168 BARS ANALYSED