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Santana · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 15 OF 75
Join Part A to Part K (bars 21-23)
59 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART K
PART A
PART K
PART Q
PART AH
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS18QAWAZAH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Santana on drums

170 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 5:48 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-42 and toms through bars 43-47, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-115, 117-123 and 125-127, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Santana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 43, 44 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ, AW -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-28 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Santana?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Santana hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Santana?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 43, 44 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED