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The drum beat in Ya No Sé Que Hacer Conmigo

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 37-48 and 61-76 -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 102 BPM
YA NO SÉ QUE HACER CONMIGO · BAR 1

It is played on hi-hat and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 54 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 77 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 77, 89 and 102 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Ya No Sé Que Hacer Conmigo use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat and kick, in 4/4 at 102 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 49% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 1-20, 37-48 and 61-76. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 6 times over the song.

Is the beat in Ya No Sé Que Hacer Conmigo hard?

32 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED