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The drum beat in Te amo tanto o mas que a todo sobre el mundo

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-33 and 45-58 -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 120 BPM
TE AMO TANTO O MAS QUE A TODO SOBRE EL MUNDO · BARS 20-21

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 60 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 58 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 78 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 4 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
  2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  3. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  4. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 78, 92, 106 and 120 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Te amo tanto o mas que a todo sobre el mundo use?

A 2-bar phrase on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 8/4 at 120 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 38.4% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 20-33 and 45-58. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in Te amo tanto o mas que a todo sobre el mundo hard?

60 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED