Terra Seca · Fraternidade São João Paulo II

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 31-35 and 37, and 6 more places -- 39.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TERRA SECA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 1 is a fill, 14 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEAS7CF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terra Seca?

120 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 Terra Seca hard to play on drums?

32 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Terra Seca?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

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