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Lotus · Soen

EXERCISE 34 OF 34
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lotus on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, ride through bars 31-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 35-37 and 39, and 12 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Lotus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Lotus?

78 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?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED