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The Law of mine · Gabriel Alexi

The Law of mine · Gabriel Alexi
EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove S -- Part S
0 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART S
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AF
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesAAHS7SH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Law of mine on drums

120 bars, 6:50, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-34, hi-hat through bars 35-45, silence through bars 46-63 and toms through bars 64-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 82 and 84-86 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|
HH |o-------o---------------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
The Law of mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Law of mine?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Law of mine hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 of mine?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 25, 26 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED