Se Olvido · Saratoga

190 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15-17 and 21-24, and 11 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SE OLVIDO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 30, 32, 53 and 19 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 17 sections: 132 keep time, 25 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-52.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
8 groovesDNHUA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Se Olvido?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Se Olvido hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Se Olvido?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 30, 32, 53 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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