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LOTUS · Avralize

LOTUS · Avralize
EXERCISE 26 OF 62
Groove AE -- Part AE
67 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJBAES11BG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LOTUS on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-35, silence through bars 36-42, snare through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-54 and snare through bars 55-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 43-49 and 75, and 4 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
LOTUS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 29, 30, 31 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-55 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-132 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part AE and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is LOTUS?

143 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 LOTUS hard to play on drums?

63 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 LOTUS?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 29, 30, 31 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED