Toro · El columpio asesino

129 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-129 -- 77.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TORO · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 12 and 13.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 5 sections: 120 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-129.

PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHEBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Toro?

140 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 Toro hard to play on drums?

29 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Toro?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 9, 12 and 13.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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