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LAX · Vulfpeck

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFJS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LAX on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-27 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
LAX -- 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 19 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 -- D, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-100 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is LAX?

128 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 LAX hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED