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Lady (You Bring Me Up) · Commodores

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lady (You Bring Me Up) on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 19-32 and 39, and 13 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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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 (You Bring Me Up) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 55, 93, 109 and 137.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lady (You Bring Me Up)?

122 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 (You Bring Me Up) hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (You Bring Me Up)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 55, 93, 109 and 137.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED