The Last Laugh · Antimatter

169 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 33-46, and 2 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE LAST LAUGH · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 32, 96 and 152.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 152 · LANDS ON BAR 153
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 8 sections: 139 keep time, 4 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Laugh?

140 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 The Last Laugh hard to play on drums?

39 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Last Laugh?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 32, 96 and 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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