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Latitudinarian · Master

Latitudinarian · Master
EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesEHOBM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Latitudinarian on drums

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 128 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-57, hi-hat through bars 58-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-129, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---|
Latitudinarian -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Latitudinarian?

128 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Latitudinarian hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Latitudinarian?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED