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We Are Number One · Lazytown

We Are Number One · Lazytown
EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove V -- Outro 2
46 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBVPS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Number One on drums

94 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-44, snare through bars 45-49 and silence through bars 50-51, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 15-19, and 13 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |------x---x---x-|--x---x---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
HF |----------------|------------x---|
We Are Number One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 39, 52, 59 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are Number One?

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

Is We Are Number One hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Are Number One?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 34, 38, 39, 52, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED