Lola · Cicatriz

147 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 22-24 and 27-32, and 7 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
LOLA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 15, 16, 20, 36, 44 and 12 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 18 sections: 103 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-121.

CHORUS
PART L
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO 2
14 groovesGQSZA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lola?

148 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 Lola hard to play on drums?

55 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Lola?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 15, 16, 20, 36, 44 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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