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Volverá · El Canto Del Loco

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-20)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Volverá on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-60, ride through bars 61-63, hi-hat through bars 64-92 and ride through bars 93-95, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 11-12 and 19-20, and 11 more places -- 62.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 80, 112 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-117 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Volverá?

123 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 Volverá hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Volverá?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 40, 80, 112 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED