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Don't Say Lazy · K-On!!

EXERCISE 7 OF 40
Groove C -- Part C
125 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGCSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Say Lazy on drums

195 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-129, kick and crashes through bars 130-137, hi-hat through bars 138-188 and snare through bars 189-195.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 18-24, and 13 more places -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Don't Say Lazy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 41, 57, 73 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-109 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-115 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-149 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Say Lazy?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Don't Say Lazy hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Don't Say Lazy?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 17, 37, 41, 57, 73 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED