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La Do Da · Journey

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Join Part B to Part E (bars 5-7)
75 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
OUTRO
10 groovesGEFJR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Do Da on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 3-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-30, snare through bars 31-34 and ride through bars 35-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 23 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-----x-|
La Do Da -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 38, 62, 66, 74, 78 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-68 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-24 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-75 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is La Do Da?

149 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 La Do Da hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in La Do Da?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 38, 62, 66, 74, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED