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Iron Clad Lou · Hum

EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove R -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART O
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART P
CHORUS 5
PART AA
CHORUS 6
11 groovesROAADP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iron Clad Lou on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 7:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-35, silence through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-105, snare through bars 106-114 and ride through bars 115-120, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52, 54 and 56-58, and 18 more places -- 26.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Iron Clad Lou -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 32, 34 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- R, P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-48 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-74 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-108 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Iron Clad Lou?

98 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 Iron Clad Lou hard to play on drums?

40 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Iron Clad Lou?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 32, 34 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED