Volviendo A Casa · Rata Blanca

170 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7 and 19-22, and 9 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
VOLVIENDO A CASA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 29, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 16 sections: 109 keep time, 32 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-167.

PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSCGMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Volviendo A Casa?

120 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 Volviendo A Casa hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Volviendo A Casa?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 29, 30, 34, 42, 50 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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