Electric Groove · Lazerhawk

146 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-30, 51-70 and 76-79, and 5 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ELECTRIC GROOVE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 19 sections: 120 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-71.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
8 groovesEHCFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Electric Groove?

120 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 Electric Groove hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Electric Groove?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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