Lay It Down · Ratt

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 20 and 22, and 12 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
LAY IT DOWN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 59, 68, 72 and 76.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-50.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay It Down?

99 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 Lay It Down hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lay It Down?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 59, 68, 72 and 76.

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