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Volviendo A Casa · Rata Blanca

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSCGMQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Volviendo A Casa on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-34, ride through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-83, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-129 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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