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Lady Laura · Roberto Carlos

Lady Laura · Roberto Carlos
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesDCBS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lady Laura on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-75, snare through bars 76-80, hi-hat through bars 81-158 and snare through bars 159-164.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Lady Laura -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 11-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-111 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 120-127 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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