Lady Marmalade · La Belle

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 24 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LADY MARMALADE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 33, 48, 56, 70, 71 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-67.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART A
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDACBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lady Marmalade?

120 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 Marmalade hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lady Marmalade?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 33, 48, 56, 70, 71 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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