Una Vela · Intoxicados

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 31 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
UNA VELA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 99 and 103.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-46.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesCEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Una Vela?

102 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 Vela hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Una Vela?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 99 and 103.

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