Tras Las Rejas · Saratoga

196 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-43, 46-51 and 80-85, and 8 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TRAS LAS REJAS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 26, 37 and 29 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 16 sections: 134 keep time, 35 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-131.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDCOIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tras Las Rejas?

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 Tras Las Rejas hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Tras Las Rejas?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 26, 37 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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