09 LONESOME KNIGHT · Reaction

155 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 11-14 and 32, and 8 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
09 LONESOME KNIGHT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 24 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 26-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 21 sections: 102 keep time, 31 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-14.

CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART P
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART H
10 groovesBHGYP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 09 LONESOME KNIGHT?

150 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 09 LONESOME KNIGHT hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 09 LONESOME KNIGHT?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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