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Luka · Suzanne Vega

Luka · Suzanne Vega
EXERCISE 9 OF 35
Groove H
94 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, PART J
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFNDJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Luka on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 34 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 49, 87, 111 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-78 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-108 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Luka?

125 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 Luka hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 Luka?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 49, 87, 111 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED