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We Are Sudamerican Rockers · Los Prisioneros

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 60 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECAHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Sudamerican Rockers on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-30, hi-hat through bars 31-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-39, 58-72 and 80-85, and 4 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 8-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-73 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 72-80 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are Sudamerican Rockers?

135 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 We Are Sudamerican Rockers 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED