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EXERCISE 12 OF 41
Run F1 · Part F (bars 14-17)
37 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCHFTAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Chance To Lose Your Keys on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-21, toms through bars 22-31, ride through bars 32-43 and toms through bars 44-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 24-25, and 2 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx------xx------|
HF |x---xxx-x-x-xxx-|
Last Chance To Lose Your Keys -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 23, 30, 31 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-22 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-56 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Chance To Lose Your Keys?

90 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 Last Chance To Lose Your Keys hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Last Chance To Lose Your Keys?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 13, 21, 23, 30, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED