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Lauren · Men I Trust

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lauren on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, kick and hi-hat foot.

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
18/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-72 and kick and crashes through bars 73-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 41-56 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A, B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-76 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lauren?

94 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 Lauren 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED