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Lachryma · Ghost

EXERCISE 13 OF 35
Groove J -- Part J
79 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART C, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCJAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lachryma on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-45, hi-hat through bars 46-57, ride through bars 58-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 38-39, and 11 more places -- 20.5% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Lachryma -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 61, 65, 69 and 6 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lachryma?

111 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 Lachryma hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lachryma?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 33, 37, 61, 65, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED