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Tarjetitas · Juan Fernando Velasco

Tarjetitas · Juan Fernando Velasco
EXERCISE 20 OF 34
Join Part H to Part I (bars 49-51)
80 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART I
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tarjetitas on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-50, ride through bars 51-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-90.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Tarjetitas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-78 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 62-87 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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