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Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) · Dua Lipa

EXERCISE 21 OF 26
Join Part B to Break 3 (bars 76-78)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDBES8S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-77, silence through bars 78-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 17 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 49, 73, 107 and 109.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-43 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance)?

104 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 Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) hard to play on drums?

52 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance)?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 49, 73, 107 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED