Una Paloma Blanca · George Baker Selection

114 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-30, 36-40 and 51-65, and 2 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
UNA PALOMA BLANCA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 9 sections: 105 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Una Paloma Blanca?

132 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 Una Paloma Blanca hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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