LAZERETH* · Portrait Of A Lady, Riley Bird

42 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 1:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 13-16 and 30-32, and 1 more place -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
LAZERETH* · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 11 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

42 bars across 6 sections: 15 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesDKS5S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is LAZERETH*?

105 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 LAZERETH* hard to play on drums?

62 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in LAZERETH*?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED
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