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Lucky Man · Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Lucky Man · Emerson, Lake & Palmer
EXERCISE 20 OF 83
Groove K -- Part K
53 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART AC
PART D
PART K
PART D
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJDACBDAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucky Man on drums

118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 50 BPM, 7:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, ride through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64, ride through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 29-31 and 33, and 8 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x-----------x--------|
Lucky Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 13-32 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucky Man?

50 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lucky Man hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Lucky Man?

21 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED