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Una Paloma Blanca · George Baker Selection

Una Paloma Blanca · George Baker Selection
EXERCISE 11 OF 11
Play the whole song with the record
114 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 114 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Una Paloma Blanca on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-30, snare through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 51-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED