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Last Night on Earth · Wisp

EXERCISE 8 OF 39
Groove E -- Part E
37 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJEDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Night on Earth on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-30, hi-hat through bars 31-70, ride through bars 71-84 and snare through bars 85-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33 and 35, and 19 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Last Night on Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- J -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-56 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-74 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Night on Earth?

120 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 Night on Earth hard to play on drums?

41 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Last Night on Earth?

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED