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Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios · Clairo

EXERCISE 24 OF 53
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
64 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCKAAS1Y+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-72, snare through bars 73-76, hi-hat through bars 77-84, toms through bars 85-88 and silence through bars 89-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-41, 43 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- K, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios?

110 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 Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Bags - Recorded At Electric Lady Studios?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED