← SONGS

Si Una Vez · Selena

Si Una Vez · Selena
EXERCISE 14 OF 43
Join Part F to Part I (bars 14-16)
82 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART I
INTRO
PART F
PART I
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Si Una Vez on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Si Una Vez -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-20 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 18-51 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-64 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-83 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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