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Lasso · Phoenix

Lasso · Phoenix
EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
80 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesDJGAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lasso on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-20, toms through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 50-56 and 88-95 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Lasso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 81, 103 and 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-45 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lasso?

152 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 Lasso hard to play on drums?

48 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 Lasso?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 81, 103 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED