Rompecabezas · Aterciopelados

141 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-22, and 10 more places -- 75.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ROMPECABEZAS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 and 2 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 101-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 5 sections: 120 keep time, 8 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rompecabezas?

135 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 Rompecabezas hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rompecabezas?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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