Lazaretto · Jack White

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 19-25 and 29-30 -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LAZARETTO · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 26, 27, 31, 41 and 2 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 39 keep time, 8 are fills, 17 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-15.

CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
PART S5
OUTRO
9 groovesCS5OJS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lazaretto?

90 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 Lazaretto hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 26, 27, 31, 41 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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