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LEAN - Official Video · Larcenia Roe

LEAN - Official Video · Larcenia Roe
EXERCISE 7 OF 57
Fill at bar 12
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0 / 57 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
PART U
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKIEBP+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LEAN - Official Video on drums

151 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60, silence through bars 61-62, snare through bars 63-110 and silence through bars 111-112, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-33, 71-75 and 79-83, and 1 more place -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                               30
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------|x-------x-x-x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-|
LEAN - Official Video -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 21, 28, 36, 44 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-13 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is LEAN - Official Video?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is LEAN - Official Video hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 LEAN - Official Video?

8 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 21, 28, 36, 44 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED