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Lai Lai Hei! · Ensiferum

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove T -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART AG
OUTRO 2
14 groovesTAKAGBH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lai Lai Hei! on drums

210 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 10:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
10:15
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, silence through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-43, snare through bars 44-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-51, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-66, 68-69 and 72-73, and 9 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Lai Lai Hei! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 19, 23, 25, 27, 43, 45 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- T, AG -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-29 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-52 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lai Lai Hei!?

82 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 Lai Lai Hei! hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 10:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Lai Lai Hei!?

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 19, 23, 25, 27, 43, 45 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED