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Loretta · Ginger Root

Loretta · Ginger Root
EXERCISE 11 OF 34
Join Chorus to Verse (bars 13-15)
71 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
OUTRO
VERSE 3
5 groovesEBJHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loretta on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 21 more places -- 43.7% 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 |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Loretta -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 33, 37, 61 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-45 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Loretta?

130 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 Loretta hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

105 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Loretta?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 33, 37, 61 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED