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Lazaretto · Jack White

Lazaretto · Jack White
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART J
BREAK
PART S5
OUTRO
9 groovesCS5OJS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lazaretto on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-42, silence through bars 43-48, snare through bars 49-62, kick and crashes through bars 63-65 and snare through bars 66-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|xxxx-xxxxxxx----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x--x-x-xx--x--|x-x--x-x-xx-----|
Lazaretto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-77 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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