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Lay It Down · Ratt

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lay It Down on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19, ride through bars 20-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-51, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
Lay It Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-41 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED