Laura · Damas Gratis

177 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-19 and 23-32, and 9 more places -- 88.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 164 BPM
LAURA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 7 sections: 151 keep time, 15 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-97.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS4S6S2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Laura?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Laura hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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