Lately · DA PLUTO

185 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-55, 57-63 and 74-87 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
LATELY · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44 and 26 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 16 sections: 102 keep time, 32 are fills, 14 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

PART D
PART L
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART AB
PART AG
15 groovesRAGDABS10+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lately?

132 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 Lately hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Lately?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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