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Lacquer Head · Primus

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove W -- Part W
49 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEWACZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lacquer Head on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bar 1, toms through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-54, snare through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-90 and toms through bars 91-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-22 and 35-47, and 1 more place -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Lacquer Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 26 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part W and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Z and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lacquer Head?

113 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 Lacquer Head hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Lacquer Head?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, 26 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED