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Lump · Presidents Of The United States Of America

Lump · Presidents Of The United States Of America
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAQKJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lump on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 49 -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    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-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|x---------x---x-|
Lump -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 32, 46, 47 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, C (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-56 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lump?

144 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 Lump hard to play on drums?

53 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lump?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 16, 28, 32, 46, 47 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED