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Se Olvido · Saratoga

EXERCISE 7 OF 59
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
100 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDNHUA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Se Olvido on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
85/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-24, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Se Olvido -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-77 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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