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Libido · Libido

EXERCISE 5 OF 57
Fill at bar 9 and 37 (a small one)
64 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEHFQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Libido on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, toms through bars 38-53 and snare through bars 54-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 30-32 and 34-36, and 9 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 23, 24, 28, 29, 33 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-40 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-58 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-84 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-122 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Libido?

110 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 Libido hard to play on drums?

50 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 23, 24, 28, 29, 33 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED