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Last Train To London · Electric Light Orchestra

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Train To London on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-126, snare through bars 127-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-39, 58-71 and 90-103, and 3 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-xx--xxo-xx--xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Last Train To London -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 89, 111, 112, 127 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Train To London?

121 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 Train To London hard to play on drums?

64 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Last Train To London?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 57, 89, 111, 112, 127 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED