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LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello · Thomas Raggi

EXERCISE 13 OF 45
Groove I
87 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
PART H
PART Q
PART T
7 groovesDGHQS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-65, toms through bars 66-70, snare through bars 71-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-32, 42-44 and 46-48, and 2 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 41, 53, 61, 69 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-66 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-62 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-88 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-104 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello?

120 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 LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 LUCY with UPSAHL, Chad Smith, Hama Okamoto - prod. Tom Morello?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 9, 41, 53, 61, 69 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED