Viejas Esperanzas · Eterna Inocencia

118 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 32, and 9 more places -- 64.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 198 BPM
VIEJAS ESPERANZAS · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 36, 37, 61 and 2 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 7 sections: 62 keep time, 8 are fills, 36 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-92.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Viejas Esperanzas?

198 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Viejas Esperanzas 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Viejas Esperanzas?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 36, 37, 61 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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