Ludlow · Houndmouth

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 14, and 8 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LUDLOW · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 29, 33, 46 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time, 10 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-28.

PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADS6FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ludlow?

80 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 Ludlow hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ludlow?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 29, 33, 46 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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