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Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil · Division Minuscula

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-13)
91 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBCJG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil on drums

137 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-53, snare through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-111, kick and crashes through bars 112-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-53, 78-96 and 114-137 -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-x---x-|
Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 57, 77 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 30-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-102 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil?

157 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 Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tan Fuerte Tan Fragil?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 57, 77 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED