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Spain (Full) · Chick Corea
EXERCISE 18 OF 33
Groove Y (a two-bar phrase)
112 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, CHORUS 4
CHORUS 3
PART AF
CHORUS 4
7 groovesGAFQNB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spain (Full) on drums

181 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 3-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31, snare through bars 32-33 and ride through bars 34-35, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 38-39 and 61-64, and 9 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Spain (Full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 41, 42, 43 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, AF -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spain (Full)?

240 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 Spain (Full) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Spain (Full)?

4 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 41, 42, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED