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Somewhere Over Laredo · Lainey Wilson

Somewhere Over Laredo · Lainey Wilson
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFALS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere Over Laredo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-59, silence through bars 60-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-67, toms through bars 68-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 18-38 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-74 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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