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Loft Story · Les Betteraves

EXERCISE 15 OF 22
Run F1 · Part F (bars 15-20)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCS7JFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loft Story on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, snare through bars 35-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 21-23 and 67-69 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Loft Story -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 24, 36 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-50 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loft Story?

150 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 Loft Story hard to play on drums?

53 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Loft Story?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 24, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED