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Lucretia · Megadeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 3
7 groovesHKS2PR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucretia on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, ride through bars 26-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-47 and ride through bars 48-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 13 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----xx-x-xx-|
Lucretia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucretia?

92 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 Lucretia hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lucretia?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED