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Moaning Lisa Smile · Wolf Alice

EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
60 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moaning Lisa Smile on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-27 and 29-31 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Moaning Lisa Smile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 64.

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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Moaning Lisa Smile?

100 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 Moaning Lisa Smile hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Moaning Lisa Smile?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED