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Brother Louie · Modern Talking

EXERCISE 29 OF 34
Join Part C to Verse 3 (bars 71-73)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, VERSE 3
CHORUS
VERSE
PART C
VERSE 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCEBA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brother Louie on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor 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
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 37-40 and 49-52, and 3 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Brother Louie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-9 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-40 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-49 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-61 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-97 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brother Louie?

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

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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