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The Last Laugh · Antimatter

The Last Laugh · Antimatter
EXERCISE 17 OF 22
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 82-112)
166 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Laugh on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-71, hi-hat through bars 72-112, ride through bars 113-135, hi-hat through bars 136-152 and ride through bars 153-169.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x-g-|g-x-----x-------|
BD |x---------------|----x-----------|
The Last Laugh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-76 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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