Somewhere Over Laredo · Lainey Wilson

84 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-23 and 26-32, and 8 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
SOMEWHERE OVER LAREDO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 51, 52, 68 and 8 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 60 keep time, 14 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFALS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere Over Laredo?

117 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 Somewhere Over Laredo hard to play on drums?

40 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Somewhere Over Laredo?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 36, 44, 51, 52, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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