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Tropa De Elite · Tihuana

Tropa De Elite · Tihuana
EXERCISE 15 OF 52
Hold Groove G for 8 bars -- Part G (bars 16-23)
64 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tropa De Elite on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x--x--|
Tropa De Elite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-16 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-29 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-70 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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