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Lament · King Crimson

EXERCISE 22 OF 40
Groove Y
56 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART S
PART Z
PART AE
PART AI
OUTRO 2
11 groovesASZAIAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lament on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, snare through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-26 and ride through bars 27-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-53 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---xxx-x-|
BD |x---------------|
HF |--------x-------|
Lament -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 57, 58 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- S, AE -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-77 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-79 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part AE and Part AI -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lament?

115 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 Lament 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lament?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 18, 25, 26, 57, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED