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Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2 · King Crimson

EXERCISE 18 OF 60
Join Chorus to Part S6 (bars 41-43)
56 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S6
PART G
CHORUS
PART S6
PART S8
PART AM
CHORUS 2
PART AZ
PART R
BREAK 5
18 groovesURS21GS8+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2 on drums

152 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 6:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-43, silence through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-55, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 33-35 and 38, and 7 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......
SD |------------x-----------------------x---|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-------|
HF |x-------x-----------x-----------x-------|
Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 40, 46, 49, 58 and 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- U, S -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-23 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S8 and Part AL -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AL and Part AM -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2?

115 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2 hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 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 Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 40, 46, 49, 58 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED