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Lady Writer · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 39 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesBRULFill 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 · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lady Writer on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 17 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lady Writer?

149 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 Writer hard to play on drums?

64 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?

140 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lady Writer?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED