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Lately · DA PLUTO

Lately · DA PLUTO
EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove R -- Chorus
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lately on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-13, silence through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32 and silence through bars 33-36, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Lately -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- R, D -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-57 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-98 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 93-122 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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