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My Name Luka · Suzanne Vega

My Name Luka · Suzanne Vega
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Name Luka on drums

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

47 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
47/100

silence through bars 1-5 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 35 more places -- 33.9% 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---------|
My Name Luka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 13, 49, 57, 69, 75 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-67 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-88 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-112 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Name 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 My Name Luka hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Name Luka?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 13, 49, 57, 69, 75 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED