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Love Is a Laserquest · Arctic Monkeys

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesADFBS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Love Is a Laserquest on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-42, snare through bars 43-44, ride through bars 45-52 and snare through bars 53-54, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 22-27 and 40-42, and 1 more place -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x--x|
FT |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-xx-xx-|
Love Is a Laserquest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-27 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Love Is a Laserquest?

85 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 Love Is a Laserquest hard to play on drums?

46 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Love Is a Laserquest?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED