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Soy Un Altar · Julio Melgar

Soy Un Altar · Julio Melgar
EXERCISE 37 OF 39
Run U1 · Outro (bars 116-122)
119 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEPBCU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Soy Un Altar on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-100, ride through bars 101-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-125, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 30-40 and 42-43, and 14 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Soy Un Altar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 64, 80, 88, 95, 97 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-98 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-114 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Soy Un Altar?

115 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 Soy Un Altar hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Soy Un Altar?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 29, 64, 80, 88, 95, 97 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED