Tarjetitas · Juan Fernando Velasco

90 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 33 and 35, and 9 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TARJETITAS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 45, 61, 69, 77, 85 and 1 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-28.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECIHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tarjetitas?

118 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 Tarjetitas hard to play on drums?

40 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 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 Tarjetitas?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 29, 45, 61, 69, 77, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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