Lady Laura · Roberto Carlos

164 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-46, 48-54 and 56-61, and 11 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LADY LAURA · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 110.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 13 sections: 139 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-158.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lady Laura?

135 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 Lady Laura hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Lady Laura?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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