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Tempo Perdido · Legião Urbana

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART K, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIKS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tempo Perdido on drums

178 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-174 and kick and crashes through bars 175-178.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-39 and 41-43, and 19 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 6, 16, 44, 56, 79 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-110 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 100-124 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tempo Perdido?

179 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 Tempo Perdido hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tempo Perdido?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 6, 16, 44, 56, 79 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED