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Lady Marmalade · La Belle

Lady Marmalade · La Belle
EXERCISE 11 OF 38
Join Part B to Break (bars 6-8)
78 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
PART B
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lady Marmalade on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-111 and snare through bars 112-113.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 48-95 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-105 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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