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Lava · Ministry

EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Groove E -- Part E
108 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lava on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-57, ride through bars 58-59, hi-hat through bars 60-83, ride through bars 84-85, hi-hat through bars 86-88 and ride through bars 89-106, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-32, 34-48 and 50-57, and 6 more places -- 66.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |g---g---g---g---|
Lava -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 59, 67, 85, 88, 90, 124 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 6-110 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lava?

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 Lava hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lava?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 59, 67, 85, 88, 90, 124 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED