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Lost In The Supermarket · The Clash

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFHBEQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost In The Supermarket on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 41-47 and 81-87, and 5 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Lost In The Supermarket -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-32 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-84 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lost In The Supermarket?

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 Lost In The Supermarket hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED