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Luck As Constant · Periphery

EXERCISE 5 OF 72
Groove S -- Part S (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 72 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART AC
PART S
PART D
PART S10
PART AU
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCDAUSAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Luck As Constant on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-42, ride through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-72, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 28 and 32-33, and 12 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    133
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
Luck As Constant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 25, 31, 38 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Luck As Constant?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Luck As Constant hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Luck As Constant?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 21, 25, 31, 38 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED