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WLM - Low Rider - Part 1 · Ross Carnes

EXERCISE 4 OF 19
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 3-5)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WLM - Low Rider - Part 1 on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, ride through bars 77-88, hi-hat through bars 89-92 and toms through bars 93-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36, 38 and 40, and 14 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
WLM - Low Rider - Part 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 93, 94, 95 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is WLM - Low Rider - Part 1?

115 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 WLM - Low Rider - Part 1 hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 WLM - Low Rider - Part 1?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 93, 94, 95 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED