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Lippincott · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 33 OF 62
Join Part S3 to Part U (bars 30-32)
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0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, PART U
PART B
PART I
PART S3
PART U
PART AA
PART S6
CHORUS
PART AS
PART U
BREAK
9 groovesANUAAIS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lippincott on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-20, silence through bars 21-25 and ride through bars 26-31, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 91-93 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12                                           13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6...
CC |g-----g-g-----g-------g-----g-g-----g-------|g-----g-g-----g-------g-----g-g-----g-------|
SD |--g-g---X-g-g---g-g-g---X-g-----g-g-----X-g-|--g-g-----g-X---g-g-----g-g-X---g-g-----x-x-|
BD |x-----x-------x-------x-----x-x-----x-------|x-----x-x-----x-----x-x-------x-----x-------|
Lippincott -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-32 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-44 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lippincott?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lippincott hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lippincott?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED