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Like a Prayer - album version (AI) · Madonna

EXERCISE 11 OF 32
Join Part E to Break (bars 21-23)
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0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART E
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE
CHORUS 3
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
7 groovesFLS3S5S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like a Prayer - album version (AI) on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, silence through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46, silence through bars 47-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-151.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 39, and 22 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Like a Prayer - album version (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 110, 114 and 134.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-47 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Verse 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Like a Prayer - album version (AI)?

112 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 Like a Prayer - album version (AI) hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Like a Prayer - album version (AI)?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 110, 114 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED