Theme Of Laura · Akira Yamaoka

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18, and 14 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
THEME OF LAURA · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 23, 37, 40 and 10 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 59 keep time and 16 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEPLBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Theme Of Laura?

102 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Theme Of Laura hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

82 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Theme Of Laura?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 23, 37, 40 and 10 more.

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