ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Law on drums

133 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 165 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 133
LENGTH: 3:22
DIFFICULTY: 77/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-46, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-42 and 51-58 -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                                                               36
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---------------x-x-x-------x-x-x-------|x-x-x-------x-x-x-------x-x-x-------x-x-x-------x-x-x---x-------|

The Law -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 26, 34, 44 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 9-17 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Law?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Law hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Law?

22 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 26, 34, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED