Rock del Pedazo · Los Ratones Paranoicos

79 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 22-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 63.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ROCK DEL PEDAZO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 37, 45, 53, 61 and 79.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 3 sections: 69 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock del Pedazo?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Rock del Pedazo hard to play on drums?

45 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rock del Pedazo?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 37, 45, 53, 61 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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