West Coast · Lana Del Rey

114 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-50 and 83-113 -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
WEST COAST · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 80 and 114.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 98 keep time, 3 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-113.

PART C
PART D
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesMDCHS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is West Coast?

122 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 West Coast hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 West Coast?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 31, 80 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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