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Bright Lights - copy - hoon · Gary Clark Jr.

Bright Lights - copy - hoon · Gary Clark Jr.
EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove O -- Outro
56 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
PART C
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCOUN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bright Lights - copy - hoon on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, snare through bars 34-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-30, 41-42 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Bright Lights - copy - hoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 48, 56, 57, 58, 73 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-83 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bright Lights - copy - hoon?

82 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 Bright Lights - copy - hoon hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Bright Lights - copy - hoon?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 48, 56, 57, 58, 73 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED