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Laklak · Teeth

Laklak · Teeth
EXERCISE 13 OF 49
Join Part C to Part F (bars 8-10)
86 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
PART C
PART F
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
9 groovesJECBL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Laklak on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, ride through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60, ride through bars 61-66, hi-hat through bars 67-70 and ride through bars 71-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30 and 36, and 13 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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Laklak -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 29, 42, 50 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- J, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-16 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-67 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Laklak?

127 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 Laklak hard to play on drums?

53 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Laklak?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 29, 42, 50 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED