Tiernas Cuitas · Arcana

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 29-35 and 37, and 15 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
TIERNAS CUITAS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 48, 84 and 100.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
5 groovesBDS1S7S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tiernas Cuitas?

98 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 Tiernas Cuitas hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tiernas Cuitas?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 48, 84 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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