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LA Queen · Dead Poet Society

EXERCISE 27 OF 46
2-bar fill at bar 79
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0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBWRG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LA Queen on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 3-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-37, 39-41 and 59-74, and 3 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 38, 42, 50, 58, 75 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-44 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-51 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is LA Queen?

148 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 LA Queen hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Queen?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 38, 42, 50, 58, 75 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED