Serenata Existencialista · O Grilo

71 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 38-44 and 55-61 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SERENATA EXISTENCIALISTA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 29, 45, 48 and 10 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 10 sections: 43 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBETLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serenata Existencialista?

112 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 Serenata Existencialista hard to play on drums?

64 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Serenata Existencialista?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 29, 45, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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