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The drum beat in Yendo a la Casa de Damián

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-15, 20-23 and 35-40, and 4 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 106 BPM
YENDO A LA CASA DE DAMIÁN · BAR 12

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 45 out of 100 -- a step up -- and the thing that decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.

The whole song is 52 out of 100, so the beat is most of what the song asks for. Get it clean and the rest follows.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 80 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. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 80, 93 and 106 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 Yendo a la Casa de Damián use?

A one-bar groove on hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 106 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 35.9% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 12-15, 20-23, 35-40 and 43-48, and 3 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 3 times over the song.

Is the beat in Yendo a la Casa de Damián hard?

45 out of 100 on its own -- a step up. The song as a whole is 52 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 · 109 BARS ANALYSED