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Song Of The Wind · Carlos Santana

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 6 PASSED · 106 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song Of The Wind on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-13, 15 and 17, and 21 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x-x-r-x-x-r-x-x-|r-x-x-r-x-x-r-x-|
T2 |--------------x-|----------------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
Song Of The Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Song Of The Wind?

94 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 Song Of The Wind hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED