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Hey Laura · Gregory Porter

Hey Laura · Gregory Porter
EXERCISE 10 OF 13
9-bar fill at bar 29
39 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hey Laura on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, snare through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-63.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-xx--|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Hey Laura -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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