Y Volvere · Los Angeles Negros

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 43-49 and 68-72, and 1 more place -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
Y VOLVERE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 50 and 58.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 71 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Y Volvere?

92 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 Y Volvere hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Y Volvere?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 50 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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