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Labour · Paris Paloma

Labour · Paris Paloma
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
0 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART I
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesASIFD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Labour on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-12, toms through bars 13-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27 and toms through bars 28-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 20-21 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-58 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Labour?

85 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 Labour hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 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 Labour?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED