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Ludens · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Fill at bar 77, 137 and 141 (a small one)
63 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART S4
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK 3
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEOKCS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ludens on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, silence through bars 21-47, toms through bars 48-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 58-60 and 62-64, and 8 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    64
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |----------------------x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Ludens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 65, 73, 77, 113, 121, 129 and 3 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-56 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ludens?

132 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 Ludens hard to play on drums?

58 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ludens?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 65, 73, 77, 113, 121, 129 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED