Retribución hispánica · Álex

169 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 73-74, 77-78 and 81-82, and 5 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
RETRIBUCIÓN HISPÁNICA · BARS 73-74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 54 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 12-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 42-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 60 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-153.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AC
PART AG
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAGATMAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Retribución hispánica?

190 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 Retribución hispánica hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Retribución hispánica?

15 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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