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Viejas Esperanzas · Eterna Inocencia

Viejas Esperanzas · Eterna Inocencia
EXERCISE 5 OF 24
Groove D
76 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viejas Esperanzas on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-53, hi-hat through bars 54-68 and snare through bars 69-85, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x---xx|
Viejas Esperanzas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-54 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-103 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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