Veintitrés · Nexten

171 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
VEINTITRÉS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 33 and 62 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 12 sections: 77 keep time, 68 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AE
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
7 groovesIBAEPAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veintitrés?

150 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 Veintitrés hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Veintitrés?

18 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 33 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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