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Zafar · La Vela Puerca

Zafar · La Vela Puerca
EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove E
51 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGMJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Zafar on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, ride through bars 38-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-52, hi-hat through bars 53-69 and ride through bars 70-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Zafar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 69, 76 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-55 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-74 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Zafar?

102 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 Zafar hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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.

How many fills are in Zafar?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 69, 76 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED