Terriblemente cruel · Leiva

114 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 26-29 and 31-45, and 5 more places -- 77.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
TERRIBLEMENTE CRUEL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 30, 64, 88, 96, 100 and 4 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 6 sections: 97 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-63.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terriblemente cruel?

127 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 Terriblemente cruel hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Terriblemente cruel?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 30, 64, 88, 96, 100 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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