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Lambs · Trope

Lambs · Trope
EXERCISE 5 OF 54
Groove F
30 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART Z
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART X
BREAK 2
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO 2
15 groovesQS1XDA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lambs on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, silence through bars 39-41, snare through bars 42-49, silence through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78, 80-81 and 86, and 5 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |o---o-------o---|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|
Lambs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 160, 168, 169 and 170.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- X, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-58 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-127 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-68 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-79 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lambs?

138 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 Lambs hard to play on drums?

38 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Lambs?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 160, 168, 169 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED