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Our Lips Are Sealed · The Go-Go's

Our Lips Are Sealed · The Go-Go's
EXERCISE 18 OF 23
Run J1 · Outro (bars 50-66)
82 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our Lips Are Sealed on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-69 and ride through bars 70-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-40 and 42-44, and 4 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Our Lips Are Sealed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 26, 41, 45, 61 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Our Lips Are Sealed?

132 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 Our Lips Are Sealed hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

87 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Our Lips Are Sealed?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 26, 41, 45, 61 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED