← SONGS

Volantín · Chancho En Piedra

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGPNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Volantín on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-42, ride through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-12, 14-16 and 27-36, and 3 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xx--------|x-----xx--------|
Volantín -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Volantín?

93 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 Volantín hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Volantín?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED