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Lucy · Veil Of Maya

EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove C
32 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART F
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART U
PART AC
OUTRO
8 groovesKACFNU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucy on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-43, toms through bars 44-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20 and 23-27, and 7 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32                       33
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-x-x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-x-x---x-|--x-x-x---x---x-x---x---|
Lucy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lucy?

147 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 Lucy hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Lucy?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED