LAX · Capture The Crown

111 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
LAX · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 33, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 27 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesLEASW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is LAX?

200 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 LAX hard to play on drums?

57 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 33, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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