Si Una Vez · Selena

117 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 36-41 and 44-49, and 3 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
SI UNA VEZ · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 10 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 81 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-91.

INTRO
PART F
PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART Q
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
7 groovesEMFQI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Si Una Vez?

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

Is Si Una Vez hard to play on drums?

45 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Si Una Vez?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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