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Lateralus · Tool

EXERCISE 5 OF 100
Groove C
82 / 263 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AL
PART AM
PART BP
19 groovesIBAMBPU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lateralus on drums

263 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 9:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-34, hi-hat through bars 35-43, toms through bars 44-76, hi-hat through bars 77-85 and toms through bars 86-118, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-59 and 86-101 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44                   45
    1.......2.......3... 1.......2.......3...
T1 |x-x-----------------|--------------------|
T2 |------x-------------|x-x---x-------------|
FT |x---x---x---x-x-x---|x---x---x---x-x-x---|
BD |----x-----x-------x-|----x-----x-------xx|
Lateralus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- I, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-79 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lateralus?

86 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lateralus hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Lateralus?

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED