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Lucky Strike;) · Maroon 5

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove I -- Part I
27 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART D
PART M
PART I
PART A
PART S
PART W
OUTRO
VERSE
11 groovesBIMDG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucky Strike;) on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-73, snare through bars 74-78, hi-hat through bars 79-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-87, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18 and 37-48 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Lucky Strike;) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 52, 72, 80 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-53 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-97 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-82 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucky Strike;)?

144 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 Lucky Strike;) hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Lucky Strike;)?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 52, 72, 80 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED