Tropa De Elite · Tihuana

116 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 16 and 24, and 8 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
TROPA DE ELITE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 15 sections: 72 keep time, 21 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-68.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCLGNH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tropa De Elite?

145 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 Tropa De Elite hard to play on drums?

54 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?

116 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tropa De Elite?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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