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Lucero · Avalanch

EXERCISE 11 OF 23
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 22-24)
105 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesBES10S15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucero on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-35, toms through bars 36-39, snare through bars 40-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-57 and snare through bars 58-90, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-13 and 15-19, and 17 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Lucero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 23, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-40 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-76 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucero?

139 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 Lucero hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, 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 Lucero?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 23, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED