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Lush Life · Zara Larsson

Lush Life · Zara Larsson
EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Groove E -- Part E
50 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDS7ES1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lush Life on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-60, silence through bars 61-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-35 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Lush Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 35-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lush Life?

98 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 Lush Life hard to play on drums?

38 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED