Hey Laura · Gregory Porter

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8 and 10-11, and 7 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 78 BPM
HEY LAURA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 13, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 5 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 29-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars: 51 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-63.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Laura?

78 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 Hey Laura hard to play on drums?

42 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hey Laura?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 13, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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