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We Laugh Indoors · Death Cab For Cutie

EXERCISE 23 OF 29
Run L1 · Part L (bars 128-149)
181 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
5 groovesAILDTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Laugh Indoors on drums

190 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-104, ride through bars 105-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-190.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 34 more places -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----------x-|
We Laugh Indoors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 103, 104 and 112.

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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-103 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Laugh Indoors?

156 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 Laugh Indoors hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 We Laugh Indoors?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 103, 104 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED