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Theme Of Laura · Akira Yamaoka

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 45 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEPLBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Theme Of Laura on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x--------------------x--|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o--o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x--|
Theme Of Laura -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W (a two-bar phrase), F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED