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Lachryma v2 · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDJS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lachryma v2 on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 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
124
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-56, ride through bars 57-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 37-38, 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 v2 -- 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 28, 32, 36, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lachryma v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

48 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?

124 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 v2?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED