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GOOD LUCK · girlfriends

EXERCISE 24 OF 40
Join Chorus 2 to Part L (bars 31-33)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO 2
6 groovesELHPS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GOOD LUCK on drums

84 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33 and snare through bars 34-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 26-28, and 7 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-58 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 54-84 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is GOOD LUCK?

170 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 GOOD LUCK hard to play on drums?

64 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 GOOD LUCK?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED