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Lapse · Haken

EXERCISE 8 OF 38
Groove I -- Part I
29 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART I, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART I
PART K
PART O
PART T
PART AE
OUTRO
12 groovesS12BKOT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lapse on drums

100 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-31, snare through bars 32-50, toms through bars 51-54, snare through bars 55-78 and silence through bars 79-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-13, 17-19 and 21 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
T1 |--------------------|-----x-----x--------|
T2 |xggg-ggg-ggg-ggg--gg|-gggx-ggxgg--gxg-x--|
FT |----x---x---x---xx--|x-----------------xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---|
Lapse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 40, 42, 51 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-38 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-69 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lapse?

120 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Lapse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lapse?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 40, 42, 51 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED